[Magdalen] Marriage equality ACTUALLY PASSES first reading

[Eleanor Braun]

I just saw this on several Facebook postings!  What a relief.  Hopefully in
three years some old farts will be retired, and young clergy will make this
not such a close vote.

Eleanor

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com>
wrote:

> The names of those voting for and against were released and in counting,
> it was noticed that one clergy person's vote was recorded, but he was
> not included in the count of clergy.
>
> With his vote included, the order of clergy also reached the two-thirds
> majority and, almost 18 hours after the original vote, it was declared
> that the motion had passed.
>
> So, it will be discussed and studied in the next triennium and will come
> up for second reading at General Synod 2019.
>
> I am reminded of the saying of not wanting to see legislation made.
>
> Kristin
>
> --
>   Kristin Rollins
>   kristin at verumsolum.com
>   Portsmouth, VA
>