Being Gay No Bar To Priesthood Scots Anglicans Say

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/03/032305scotsChurch.htm

The Scottish Episcopal Church says that being a practicing homosexual is no bar to becoming a priest, a stance which puts it at odds with the Anglican Communion in other parts of the world.

In a response to a February meeting of 35 top world Anglican leaders, posted on the church Web site, the College of Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church said it had ``never regarded the fact that someone was in a close relationship with a member of the same sex as in itself constituting a bar to the exercise of an ordained ministry.''

The bishops also said clergy on occasion responded to requests to give a blessing to same-sex couples.

[Hand]

1. There's a good kilt joke here somewhere! nt

[swimmernsecretsea]

2.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

[xchrom]

3. stop that, hand... i spit my coffee.

say , are you related to thing?

[Hand]

4. (Frostily, nose in air)...

I am, ahem, aware of the thing family. However, we do not talk to them.
:silly:

BTW, someone else commented that there was a good sheep joke in here somewhere, too!
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