Episcopal Café’s former editor, Jim Naughton, is raising funds for Episcopal Relief and Development running with the House of Deputies team. The Café urges you
House of Deputies President the Rev. Gay Jennings addressed the gathering and borrowed the theme offered by Congressman John Lewis at his recent acceptance of the Jonathan Daniels Humanitarian Award of “good and necessary trouble.”
“No religion’s belief or practice should be allowed to restrict the rights of people to marry and receive equal protection under the law,” said the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, president of the House of Deputies of the Episcopal Church, which submitted a brief arguing that this case is about civil — not religious — definitions of marriage.
The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies, has written a letter addressed to deputies and alternate deputies about different actions the
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