May 15, 2013
[Episcopal News Service] Some Episcopal Church congregations in the Diocese of Minnesota will decide to marry same-sex couples when a new state law goes into effect in August and some will not, and Bishop Brian Prior says that difference “represents the diversity and the comprehensive nature of who we are as Episcopalians and Anglicans.”
Writing on his...
May 9, 2013
[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church bishops of Rhode Island and Delaware both were active supporters of the legislative processes that led to those two states becoming the 10th and 11th states to allow same-sex marriage, and now they are working with their dioceses to respond to the changes in state law.
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chaffee...
March 26, 2013
[Washington National Cathedral] The Very Rev. Gary Hall, dean of Washington National Cathedral, spoke out today in favor of same-sex marriage rights as the Supreme Court Justices heard oral arguments on the cases disputing California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, which address whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans should have the freedom to marry. Dean Hall and members of the Cathedral community offered their support to the LGBT...