St. David's Episcopal Church and marriage equality

St. David's Episcopal Church featured on KXAN TV news in Austin. Bishop Doyle has designated St. David's to become the first of two Episcopal congregations in Texas to officially "bless" same-sex couples.

h/t to Walking with Integrity

Posted by Ann Fontaine on May 26, 2012 10:03 PM | |
Comments (8)

St. David's is blessedly fresh and quite esteemed in many persons' views by being selected as a Texas diocese church to bless a loving union of two people who want their life cycle of home, work and church to be fully blessed. When I move to Austin, St. David's is getting my pledge! Bravo/a and thank you.

Posted by Carla Burzyk [TypeKey Profile Page] | May 27, 2012 12:58 AM

St. David's is blessedly fresh and quite esteemed in many persons' views by being selected as a Texas diocese church to bless a loving union of two people who want their life cycle of home, work and church to be fully blessed. When I move to Austin, St. David's is getting my pledge! Bravo/a and thank you.

Posted by Carla Burzyk [TypeKey Profile Page] | May 27, 2012 12:58 AM

What a change. Back in the 80s I had to meet with the then-rector to get their bookstore to stop selling books claiming AIDS was divine judgment against homosexuals.

Posted by Bill Dilworth [TypeKey Profile Page] | May 27, 2012 1:28 AM

God is Good, huh Bill? The Holy Spirit, She moves---leads us to higher ground! :-)

JC Fisher

Posted by tgflux [TypeKey Profile Page] | May 27, 2012 5:35 PM

What's with the inverted commas around "bless" in the original post?

Posted by Warren Woodfin [TypeKey Profile Page] | May 27, 2012 11:44 PM

Dear Warren: if you click on more info on the video you will see the sentence is copied from the TV station's note.

Posted by Ann Fontaine [TypeKey Profile Page] | May 27, 2012 11:52 PM

The article likely says "bless" because same sex marriage is not legal in TX.

Brother David

Posted by David Allen [TypeKey Profile Page] | May 28, 2012 9:53 AM

Thank you for the clarification, Ann Fontaine. I found the use of the scare-quotes rather a surprise on this site.

Posted by Warren Woodfin [TypeKey Profile Page] | May 28, 2012 12:54 PM

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