Episcopalians voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow religious weddings for same-sex couples, solidifying the church’s embrace of gay rights that began more than a decade ago with the pioneering election of the first openly gay bishop.
The vote came in Salt Lake City at the Episcopal General Convention, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide. It passed in the House of Deputies, the voting body of clergy and lay participants at the meeting. The House of Bishops had approved the resolution Tuesday by 129-26 with five abstaining.
The Rev. Brian Baker of Sacramento said the church rule change was the result of a nearly four-decade long conversation that has been difficult and painful for many. Baker, chair of the committee that crafted the changes, said church members have not always been kind to one another but that the dynamic has changed in recent decades.
“We have learned to not only care for, but care about one other,” Baker said. “That mutual care was present in the conversations we had. Some people disagreed, some people disagreed deeply, but we prayed and we listened and we came up with compromises that we believe make room and leave no one behind.”
Being kind to homosexuals and telling them the gospel is required by the great commission. However purposefully endorsing their sin and allowing it in your church is a sin itself. The episcopal church just signed its own death sentence. Anyone who is a member of that denomination needs to part ways with it now.
its worse then you think, many of the main line churches have adopted the same sex abominations in there churches and the people just sit there like the zombies they are and let there pastors and female pastors ( which is also an abomination ) get away with ripping pages out of the scripture and they are totally oblivious as to what the scriptures say on this abomination . these are no longer churches they are synagogues of SATAN. these folks will have there part in a burning hell and it will be to late for them to repent of there sinful deeds.