The dioceses of Niagara, Ottawa, Montreal , Toronto and British Columbia are proceeding with same-sex marriages ahead of the final vote to approve them in 2019.<\/p>\n
But, having scoured the province for likely candidates, poor Bishop Logan McMenamie has yet to find any men willing to marry another man; or a woman to marry another woman. If Anglicans in BC don\u2019t get with the program soon, McMenamie will have to resort to compelling some of his eligible male clergy to tie the knot.<\/p>\n
From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n Bishop Logan McMenamie, of the diocese of British Columbia, announced at a diocesan synod in autumn 2016 that he will \u201cmove forward with the marriage of same-sex couples in the diocese\u201d on a case-by-case basis. When the Anglican Journal contacted McMenamie\u2019s offce in March 2017, no same-sex couples had yet approached the diocese about the possibility of marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Niagara\u2019s Bishop Michael Bird currently has the competitive edge in the same-sex marriage scavenger hunt: he has four couples under his belt.<\/p>\n Niagara, however, may have an unfair advantage since it has widened the net by including bisexuals, who, presumably, would only be satisfied with a m\u00e9nage \u00e0 trois, counting as 1.5 couples. Of course, if both candidates are bisexual, we would need a m\u00e9nage \u00e0 quatre, a bonus that would qualify as two couples. Transgender couples are also part of the Niagara strategy. I\u2019m not sure exactly how that would work, but I estimate that, depending on the mood of the moment and assuming part-time transgenderism – gender, we are assured, is fluid<\/em> – it would make a total of four possible copulative combinations, one for each week of the month: man-man, man-woman, woman-man and woman-woman. That would count as at least two couples, possibly four.<\/p>\n Bird said his thoughts on the matter have not changed and that he was committed to continuing \u201cto walk along the path of full inclusion and to immediately proceed with marriage equality\u201d with LGBTQ2 (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer\/Questioning, Two-Spirited) Anglicans in his diocese.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The dioceses of Niagara, Ottawa, Montreal , Toronto and British Columbia are proceeding with same-sex marriages ahead of the final vote to approve them in 2019. But, having scoured the province for likely candidates, poor Bishop Logan McMenamie has yet … Continue reading