The LGBT Group at St Mary’s met on 18 February to prepare its response to the current Scottish Government consultation on the bill that it is proposing to bring in on allowing changes to marriage law in Scotland including allowing same-sex couples to be able to be marriage.
In case anyone is interested, here is the response that the group made:
St Mary’s LGBT group response to government consultation
Apart from the outbreak of throat-blessings, I noticed none of this, despite being about three yards from it. Had the Shoes been other than black, however, I’d have spotted them from a mile away. #pedantalert.
Proof positive that some time spent in a good liturgical finishing school early in a clerical career pays dividends later on.
I don’t know why but the phrase ‘flailing jellyfish’ has made me laugh so much that I nearly had an accident. We’ve all done it and now it will be made worse by thinking of that phrase each time. Thank you.
“Provost turns into a flailing jellyfish”? It’s like an episode of Dr Who! Blue Book instead of blue Tardis but otherwise….
And it’s claimed that I’m ‘special’!!
i got a good chuckle out of this. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Sounds par for the course at our Sunday 1030 masses… such events and little mishaps keep us all on our toes. And, of course, invariably performed with due reverence, and in the best possible taste….!
Time for my annual Blog Break. I’ll not be blogging for July, but will be back at the start of August.
[starts 0900] Devotions (such as they were) and thinking about last night’s bizarre dream. Check webfeeds. Meeting with electrician and lighting expert re bulbs blowing at great height. Answer messages and e-mails. Several international ones re current Anglican position on The Usual Topic and about who actually said what at the big ACC meeting. Visit…
No sermon this morning – I was baptising again instead.Who would have thought that so many in the congregation would take up the invitation to come to church and the Young Church Garden Party in Victorian Fancy dress?I did not participate in the dressing up, though could be found dancing around a Maypole later in…
Well, the Church Times did not publish the letter that I sent them this week. However I can forgive them much in exchange for the following: 1 – publishing a correction to last week’s erroneous claim that the Scottish Episcopal Church had accepted the Windsor Report at the General Synod 2 – the headline: “Methodists…
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