Episcopal Church Pastors lesbians marry
Sunday, January 9, 2011
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Boston .- The Episcopal Bishop Thomas Shaw of Massachusetts, officiated at the first of January this year the first gay marriage between two "priests" lesbian of its denomination, which is part of the 
communion
communion Anglican .
Shaw led the ceremony of marriage between the president of the Episcopal Divinity School, Katherine Ragsdale and a member of the Episcopalian clergy, Mally Lloyd, at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul in Boston.
homosexual unions matched to real marriage legal in Massachusetts in the U.S..
Shaw said during the ceremony that "God always rejoices when two people who love to make a lifelong commitment to go beyond in the heart of God through the other. It is a great pleasure for me to celebrate with God and my friends Katherine and Mally marriage. " Lloyd is getting married a second time.
The Episcopal Divinity School is an Episcopal seminary that accepted women to prepare for the "priesthood." Katherine Ragsdale, 52, is from October 2009 the first woman to chair it.
Ragsdale was a member of the boards of various feminist groups and advocates of abortion in America and NARAL Pro-Choice America and the Religious Coalition for Choice Reproductive (RCRC). Furthermore, in the Episcopal Church has worked as a consultant on professional ethics and planning.
Meanwhile, Lloyd has 57 years and is part of the team of Bishop Shaw since 2008. He is a member of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church and its budget and finance committee.
In 2003, the decision to order American Episcopalians an active homosexual bishop, Gene Robinson, sparked a serious crisis within the Anglican Communion, which ended a moratorium on the ordination of bishops homosexuals.
However, in July 2009, during the convention in Anaheim (California) American Episcopalians decided to authorize, by a wide margin of votes, the continuation of these arrangements.
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