Episcopal Church blesses gender segregation in families

By Frances Kelly

The war on gender continues...

• Director of BGLTQ student life at Harvard College opposes "gendered pronouns"
  
  
• U.S. House Democrats support abortions targeting gender
  
  
• And now the Episcopal Church plans a new rite to bless gender-segregation in families
  

Reuters:

The U.S. Episcopal Church is poised to become the first major religious denomination in the United States to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages after its bishops overwhelmingly approved such a liturgy on Monday.

The proposed blessing was agreed by the church's Chamber of Bishops at a meeting in Indianapolis and is expected to receive final approval from its House of Deputies later this week, Ruth Meyers, a chair of the Episcopalians' Subcommittee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Church Music, told Reuters.

The decision would go into effect in December and make the Episcopal Church, an independent U.S.-based institution affiliated with global Anglicanism, the biggest U.S. church to allow a liturgy for same-sex marriages.

The Episcopal Church is the 14th-largest denomination in the United States with nearly 2 million adherents, according to the National Council of Churches.

The new Episcopal same-sex liturgy, called "the Witnessing and Blessing of a Lifelong Covenant," would be a standard rite for same-sex marriage.

In other words, the Episcopal Church voted to bless gender-segregated "marriages."

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© Frances Kelly