• So, let me get this right…

  16/02/2013

  Let me be sure I’ve understood this.

  From sometime next year or the year after, a gay couple will be able to get a Civil Partnership, then come to a Scottish Episcopal Church for a blessing from a Scottish Episcopal priest, make promises to one another, exchange rings, have them blessed, sing hymns and have a Eucharist celebrating their union. And then they will be able to convert it to a marriage soon after (what a day later?) by filling in a form and paying a small fee. Or maybe they will not even need to go through the Civil Partnership bit and just be able to come for the whole blessing thing after getting married.

  And that’s going to be OK with just about everyone. Admittedly not absolutely everyone but not far off.

  And we are now currently insisting in submissions to the Scottish Government that the same Scottish Episcopal Church is opposed by virtue of our doctrine to same-sex couples getting married.

  And we expect government (and the general population) to take us seriously.

  Have I understood that correctly?

  equal marriage, LGBT, Same-sex blessings

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