From: Janice and Shawn Sanford Beck
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 9:10 PM
Subject: good news from the ELCIC
Hi folks!
Can somebody forward this to the Integrity list ... there was definitely good news tonight!!! The Lutherans (ELCIC) are having their national meeting here in Saskatoon, and they just voted, with a reasonably wide margin, to allow their pastors to preside at and/or bless the marriages of gay and lesbian couples. Rather than stop at "blessings", they went whole hog straight to marriages.
Tomorrow, they will have a related vote on the ordination of open and partnered LGBTT people.
This is a huge step, my friends! I don't know what effect it will have on us Anglicans, via the realities of full communion, but it is certainly a good indication that we are all moving in the right direction ... thanks be to God!
Peace,
Shawn
Rev. Shawn Sanford Beck
Ecumenical Companions of Sophia
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God is Love, and Her Body is all Creation.
She is a Tree of Life, who gathers Her children in Love.
Rev. Shawn Sanford Beck
Ecumenical Companions of Sophia
http://ecosophian.wordpress.com/about/
God is Love, and Her Body is all Creation.
She is a Tree of Life, who gathers Her children in Love.
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