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At a Victoria-area nursing home Wednesday, Ruth Pogson, 83, and Beth Aime, 79, exchanged those simple vows in front of a small group of family and friends. The pair, who have been committed to each other since 1995, wanted to make the reality of their relationship legal, said Pogson.

"In the church, ritual is important as rites of passage. And this for us is a rite of passage. It's a whole new stage of life. It changes everything," she said.

But the Anglican Church of Canada, to whom they have devoted much of their lives, was not there to marry them or to bless them. Pogson and Aime were married in a civil ceremony.

Eventually, their union will be blessed in the Diocese of New Westminster when that parish has permission from the bishop to bless same sex couples, said Aime.

"I'm happy they're getting married. I'm happy they found happiness with each other," said Peter Elliott, dean of Christ Church Cathedral in the Diocese of New Westminster.
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10 responses // Lesbian priests marry at nursing home

  • This is very touching.
    Vierotchka
  • I'm sorry. Not trying to be a Negative Neghie here, but does the Bible they read from not condemn them to hell? It's a complete oxymoron to me. It's one thing to live your life freely, but it's another thing to consider yourself a Christian and cherry pick what's going to apply to your life. It's right up their with a'temporary tax increase' or 'synthetic natural gas.' It just makes no sense.
    Neghie
  • Please enlighten us - where in the Bible is it stated that lesbians are condemned to hell? The New Testament (and therefore Jesus Christ) doesn't mention anything about homosexuality. As for cherry-picking what's going to apply to one's life, show me a single Christian who doesn't do so and obeys the laws in the Old Testament such as not letting cattle graze in a field with other kinds of domestic animals; not wearing clothes made of mixed fibres; never cutting hair or shaving; killing anyone who has cursed mother and/or father; executing adulterers; excluding people who have flat noses, or are blind or lame, from going to an altar of God; never grow two kinds of crops in a field; if they find out a city worships a different god, destroy the city and kill all of it's inhabitants... even the animals; kill anyone with a different religion, etc.?
    Vierotchka
  • Note, I am first an atheist.

    In Romans 1:26-27 Paul says “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; And the men, instead of having normal sexual relationships with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men and, as a result, suffered within themselves the penalty they so richly deserved. (Romans 1:27 NLT)

    In 1 Corinthians 6:9, Paul wrote, “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind.” The “abusers of themselves with mankind” are those men who engage in unnatural sexual relations with other men – homosexuals.

    In Genesis chapter 19, we find two angels that pay a visit to Lot’s home in Sodom. In verse four, we find that “all the men from every part of Sodom” surrounded Lot’s house, and told Lot to bring out his visitors “so that we can have sex with them.” The pro-homosexual revisionist argues that the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah was that the residents wanted to commit an act of rape. That the rape would have been homosexual is not an issue, according to their argument. However, Jude 7 indicates that Sodom and Gomorrah’s punishment was due to their sexual perversion. Their sin was not simply one of violence (rape) but of sexual immorality (homosexuality).

    Leviticus 18:22, and 20:13 describe homosexuality as “an abomination.”

    Jesus may not have condemned it while on earth, but God certainly had a problem with it. I am all for gay rights and you're right, everyone seems to cherry pick what they're gonna pay attention to. It's why I choose not to go around telling people what is right and wrong in accordance to what the Bible says, but I do not get how those who believe in the Bible, can also be homosexual when it so clearly speaks against it. I would think you have to repudiate one or the other.
    Neghie
  • Good one neghie!! i Totally Agree!!

    If they want to be lesbian...get the hell out of the church!

    You cant have your cake and eat it! there are plenty of religions that allow that!

    Anglicans are warped!
    mwaniki
  • "Note, I am first an atheist."

    "Jesus may not have condemned it while on earth, but God certainly had a problem with it."

    I see a glaring contradiction there!


    "...but I do not get how those who believe in the Bible, can also be homosexual when it so clearly speaks against it. I would think you have to repudiate one or the other."

    The same applies with regard to the massive amounts of other things the Bible speaks clearly against, which would mean that 99% of Christians would have to repudiate either Christianity or a huge bunch of things they do in their daily lives, by your avowed standards.
    Vierotchka
  • Exactly.
    Neghie
  • Well...well...

    I'd agree that many christians dont live by the letter of the standards set in the bible...but in my understanding, religion was never a democracy. You dont change it because it doesnt suit most of you.

    People have the right to leave the religion if its against it, and christianity has lost alot of its followers because of this.

    however, if you want to stay, then conform. If you cant conform...leave.
    mwaniki
  • Its the difference between fundementalist thinking and liberation thinking. But everyone "cherry picks" from their holy text to support their point of view. As the Bard said "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose"
    pacebp
  • Vierotchka 2 thumbs up for the good demonstration,
    and it's not about librety, it's about right and wrong, that returns to standards,ethics, and laws, which lead in the end to Philosophy or Religon.
    and yes we need them, we don't want want another Sodom or Gomorrah,we reject the concept of establishing the city of depravity here in this great country.
    Morality

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