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Contents:
- NEW CEREMONI FOR GAY UNNS
- EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
NEW CEREMONI FOR GAY UNNS
The stroke of midnight this past Sunday morng hered a new era human rights for gay and lbian New Yorkers. From Niagara Falls to the southern shore of Long Island, same sex upl, many of them already mted relatnships for s, were award hundreds of legal rights they had * catholic church and gay weddings *
Below, we've llected ceremoni, some officially sanctned, some wrten by the uple, that have been ed to bls gay unns different fahs. "AnglinA plete Re of Covenant for gays and lbians, by the Anglin Dce of New Wtmster, Canada, cludg solemn promis of life-long love and fily om the uple and support om the muny. "CatholicDignyUSA, the largt natnal lay movement of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (GLBT) Catholics, provis rmatn on Holy Unn ceremoni of mment for same-sex Catholic upl and bls unns through lol chapters.
"For more on Epispalian gay outreach, vis; or Oasis, California Dce's mistry to gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenred people. InterfahRabbi Miriam Jerris, who practic Secular Humanist Judaism, scrib a ceremony she performed for an terfah Jewish-Christian gay uple. Liberal ChristianCathedral of Hope, a well-known gay megachurch Dallas, offers two sample servic: one wh creative touch (cludg the Apache blsg and a Uny ndle); the send more tradnal.
EXCLUSIVE: TAYLOR MARSHALL SAYS POPE FRANCIS MAY CHANGE POSN OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
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