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Same-sex blessings approved
National Catholic Reporter, Oct 26, 2007
TORONTO -- The Ottawa diocese of the Anglican Church of Canada has approved same-sex marriage blessings. Voting Oct. 13 by a margin of 177 to 97, delegates to the diocese's annual synod in Cornwall approved a motion asking the local bishop to allow clergy "whose conscience permits" to bless same-sex unions.
The delicately worded motion did not ask that gay couples be allowed to marry in an Anglican church, or even that their civil unions be sanctified. It just asked that priests be given the right to approach the bishop for permission for such a blessing.
In June, the national church's synod voted down a plan to let local churches decide for themselves whether to bless same-sex marriages while also saying that same-sex blessings do not run afoul of core Anglican doctrine.
--Religion News Service
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