How about extending don't ask don't tell to heterosexuals?

Ian Ayres guest blogging at Freakonomics:

There are also two ways to end the military’s de jure discrimination based on sexual orientation. We can either repeal DADT, or we could extend its application to heterosexuals as well. If extended, no soldier could talk about his or her orientation without risk of exclusion.

My own church, St. Thomas Episcopal in New Haven, tried a version of this strategy. In 2004, the church vestry adopted a resolution “calling for St. Thomas’s clergy to treat same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples equally in administering the sacrament of marriage,” as the church Web site describes it. The Bishop was not amused, and within 3 days he called an emergency meeting warning our rector, Father Michael Ray, that he risked being defrocked if he performed marriage ceremonies for any same-sex couples inside the church. Ray responded by honoring both the request of the vestry and the demands of the Bishop by announcing a moratorium on the celebration of all marriages. The Times ran a great piece describing the event.


Read the whole thing at Freakonomics.

Posted by John B. Chilton on January 23, 2008 1:37 PM | |
Comments (1)

I don't honor wedding anniversaries in prayers, etc. for the same reason. Until I can extend the same honor across the board to my GLBT parishioners, I'm not going to do it.

But birthday prayers, now those are fun.

Posted by Kit Carlson [TypeKey Profile Page] | January 23, 2008 10:57 PM

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