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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Flash! Unitarians OK Gay Marriages
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Date: Sat, 30-Jun-84 01:30:51 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 30 01:30:51 1984
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From UPI, as printed in the Boston Globe, 6/29:
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Unitarian Universalist Assn. yesterday approved the
marriage of homosexual couples.  The 1300 delegates at the group's
international General Assembly approved the resolution, which had earlier
been approved by the board of trustees, 77-0, on a voice vote.  A
spokesman, Kenneth Campbell, said the church is the first major
denomination to affirm religious celebrations of the union of homosexual
couples.  The association president, Eugene Pickett, said, "We believe it
is important to respect the commitment of two people to each other in a
ceremony which has personal and religious significance, even if it doesn't
have legal validity."  The Unitarian Universalist Church has 1010
congregations in the United States, Canada and eight other nation.
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To which I say, "Amen and Alleluia."  It is truly refreshing to see a
religious organization take a forward, prophetic stand without the
normal mealy-mouthed equivocating which usually accompanies ANY possibly
controversial decision, gay-related or not.  I don't know much about the
U-U Assn., but I intend to find out more about them.
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/Steve Dyer
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