[lit-ideas] Re: LUMBERJACKS IN BLACK DRESSES

Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 4:51:18 PM, Mike Geary wrote:

  
 
MG> I'm pleased to see that Pope Benedict has finally  outlawed
MG> gays from the priesthood. 


I imagine he had to after what he said about gays.

On a brighter note:  Liberal Jewish Synagogues here will perform gay
marriage ceremonies, presumably as of December 21 (December 20 in
Scotland) when civil partnerships will begin to be celebrated.  The
Methodists are going to perform blessings of civil partnerships; the
Anglicans are of course scared of schism but Anglican priests will
enter into civil partnerships.  (Bishops are supposed to ask them if
they're celibate.  Yeah right... .)

Guess what.  Presumably in the "no sex we're British" tradition, civil
partnership law doesn't admit the dissolving of a partnership for
non-consummation.  So heterosexual same-sex couples who want the tax
advantages of a cp can enter into one. Otoh there's no cp "divorce".


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Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK

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