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• NATNAL CATHEDRAL CELEBRAT COURT'S GAY MARRIAGE RULG
• NATNAL CATHEDRAL HOLDS SERVICE ON GAY MARRIAGE
• WASHGTON NATNAL CATHEDRAL TO HOLD GAY WEDDGS
• NATNAL CATHEDRAL DEAN ON GUNS, CHURCH & GAY MARRIAGE
• NATNAL CATHEDRAL'S GAY MARRIAGE STANCE SPARKS CALLS FOR DEFUNDG
• NATNAL CATHEDRAL TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE

NATNAL CATHEDRAL CELEBRAT COURT'S GAY MARRIAGE RULG

But he says discrimatn remas agast gays and lbians. Hall says the fah muny has much work to do to end discrimatn agast gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people.

The Natnal Cathedral held a special prayer service for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr fai after two historic Supreme Court lgs Wednday upheld the legaly of same-sex marriage.

NATNAL CATHEDRAL HOLDS SERVICE ON GAY MARRIAGE

Supreme Court Hands Gay Marriage Historic WSocial Media Epts Over Same-Sex Marriage DecisnsWatch: Prop 8 Rulg ReactnRAW VIDEO: Prop 8 Platiffs React to Supreme Court RulgNatnal Cathedral to Perform Same-Sex Weddgs. "We enthiastilly affirm each person as a beloved child of God — and dog so means cludg the full participatn of gays and lbians the life of this spirual home for the natn. Acrdg to the news release, only upl directly affiliated wh the life of the thedral as members of the ngregatn, alumni, volunteers, donors or those judged by the an to have played an exceptnal role the life of the natn are eligible to be married at the will likely be six months to a year before the first gay marriag are performed at the thedral due to s by schle and s pre-maral unselg requirement, the AP s General Conventn last summer, the U.

Epispal Church beme the biggt church the Uned Stat to approve a provisnal re for blsg gay Epispal Church is an pennt U. Illois and Rho Island are also set to take up bills to possibly jo them, and the Supreme Court is schled to hear s on gay marriage Hall told the AP he se marriage as a human issue, not a polil issue.

WASHGTON NATNAL CATHEDRAL TO HOLD GAY WEDDGS

Cathedral officials tell The Associated Prs the church will be among the first Epispal ngregatns to implement a new re of marriage for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr members. It will likely be six months to a year before the first gay marriag are performed at the thedral due to s by schle and s pre-maral unselg requirement. Some ngregatns have left the church over s cln of gays and lbians over the years.

Legislators Illois and Rho Island are set to take up bills to possibly jo them, and the Supreme Court is schled to hear s on gay marriage March. “For to be able to say we embrace same-sex marriage as a tool for fahful people to live their liv as Christian people, ” he said, “for to be able to say that at a moment when so many other barriers toward full equaly and full cln for gay and lbian people are fallg, I thk is an important symbolic moment. Image ptn, The first gay marriage uld be held at the Natnal Cathedral as soon as six monthsThe Washgton Natnal Cathedral, one of the hight-profile church the US, will host same-sex weddgs, a thedral lear has Very Rev Gary Hall said the move brgs about "the full participatn" of gay people the church has no official state sanctn but has hosted printial gural servic and state funerals, and weled foreign heads of marriage is legal the District of Columbia and ne US stat.

Storied historyLast year, the US body of the Epispal Church's Hoe of Bishops voted 111-41 to allow a provisnal re for same-sex first gay weddg the Epispal Church was performed last month at the Wt Pot Cat Natnal Cathedral, found more than a century ago north-wt Washgton, has a storied place US history. It's also taken a leadg role advotg marriage rights for gays and lbians, and at the center of all the discsns is the relatively new an of the thedral, the Very Reverend Gary Hall. All Sats has a large gay and lbian populatn and also at that time had an AIDS service center and we had a lot of people dyg of AIDS.

NATNAL CATHEDRAL DEAN ON GUNS, CHURCH & GAY MARRIAGE

So I got to know gay and lbian people a way I hadn't before that and got to know them pastorally and personally and then the gay and lbian muny me to the church and basilly began to say if you want to ll gay and lbian people to fahful Christian livg, you need to give the tools wh which to live out the Christian I hadn't been there the '80s. You know, I wasn't personally there about that issue, but bee of my personal relatnship wh gay and lbian folks and then really jt gog to school on the issue, I beme persuad that same-sex blsgs at the time were the important thg to do. And then over time I've bee gradually - bee of, aga, my experience of dog the blsgs and of knowg more and more openly gay and lbian people and really workg on and studyg the issue, I beme an advote.

And we have the exact same polici for straight upl and for gay upl, No skippg the No.

We're equal opportuny opprsors terms of our polici, which are very strict terms of your relatnship to the thedral or at schools, but I would say that - you know, generatnally, I'd say the other si of this is that younger evangelils are now fdg themselv at some distance om their parents the evangelil world bee generatnally I mean my son, who is 34, and people younger than him have a very hard time unrstandg what the issue is about homosexualy. "We have absolutely no tentns of changg urse [on gay marriage], " Richard Weberg, the Cathedral's director of munitns, told The Huffgton Post.

NATNAL CATHEDRAL'S GAY MARRIAGE STANCE SPARKS CALLS FOR DEFUNDG

"The 106-year-old Epispal church announced last month that would beg hostg same-sex nuptials, followg the appotment of proment gay marriage advote the Very Rev. "Taxpayers are beg asked to subsidize gay marriage ceremoni for a church that n readily accs lns of their own funds, " the petn stat.

"Gay rights advot claim that Reed's petn directly ntradicts his anizatn's belief that the feral ernment should support relig stutns. "RelateddcVioGay MarriageBefore You GoMost Inspirg LGBT Relig LearsPopular the CommunyYou May Like. Supreme Court schl same-sex marriage argumentsBaptist church Iowa allows same-sex marriagPope: Gay rights an "attack" on tradnal fay.

"For to be able to say we embrace same-sex marriage as a tool for fahful people to live their liv as Christian people, " he said, "for to be able to say that at a moment when so many other barriers toward full equaly and full cln for gay and lbian people are fallg, I thk is an important symbolic moment. 9 will allow gay and lbian weddgs si the storied church that has been the se of printial funerals, gural prayer servic and other servic to mark natnal ton.

NATNAL CATHEDRAL TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE

We enthiastilly affirm each person as a beloved child of God -- and dog so means cludg the full participatn of gays and lbians the life of this spirual home for the natn. In celebratg same-sex marriag, the thedral will e a formal re adapted om an existg ceremony approved Augt at the general nventn of the Epispal church, long nnected wh marriage equaly and gay rights.

The Epispal bishop of the Washgton dce, which clus the District of Columbia and four Maryland unti (all areas where gay marriage is legal), cid December to allow for the expansn of marriage. A versn of this story appeared the Jan 18-31, 2013 prt issue unr the headle: Natnal Cathedral to marry gay upl.