From Florida-
Gay couples attending St. John's
Episcopal Church can now marry within the church after the local
congregation's vestry released its decision recently allowing the
change.
For the past year, a
consultation group of nine long-time parishioners at St. John's met to
discuss the change through a process of "prayerful discernment,"
explained rector Dave Killeen, who has been at St. John's for the past
decade.
The consultation group then advised the
vestry, which ultimately made the decision to allow same-sex marriages
at the congregation.
"We want to do our very best
to care for God's people at St. John's," Killeen told the Democrat. "All
couples will be treated equally... We want to make sure everyone feels
comfortable and has a place here at St. John's — that they know they are
loved and valued."
At its 2015 general convention,
the Episcopal Church approved same-sex marriage ceremonies in the
church. It also redefined its canonical language for marriage to
gender-neutral terms.
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