Same-sex couples can now wed at the Washington National Cathedral, according to an email sent by the dean of the cathedral and a later report from the Associated Press.The Washington Cathedral is an Episcopal church, part of a denomination which has been moving toward extending the rite of marriage to same-sex couples for some time.
...The AP spoke with the dean, the Very Rev. Gary Hall:
[Hall] said performing same-sex marriages is an opportunity to break down barriers and build a more inclusive community "that reflects the diversity of God's world.
"I read the Bible as seriously as fundamentalists do. And my reading of the Bible leads me to want to do this because I think it's being faithful to the kind of community that Jesus would have us be.
"As a kind of tall-steeple, public church in the nation's capital, by saying we're going to bless same-sex marriages, conduct same-sex marriages, we are really trying to take the next step for marriage equality in the nation and in the culture.
"For us to be able to say we embrace same-sex marriage as a tool for faithful people to live their lives as Christian people, for us to be able to say that at a moment when so many other barriers toward full equality and full inclusion for gay and lesbian people are falling, I think it is an important symbolic moment."
Well done, WashCat!
[H/T to @jamisonfoser.]
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