[Magdalen] Marriage equality ACTUALLY PASSES first reading

Marion Thompson marionwhitevale at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 02:25:18 UTC 2016


Young, old.  Impossible to blame it all on old farts.  Some of the 
younger ones KNOW and have a direct line to God

marion, a pilgrim


On 7/12/2016 5:15 PM, Ginga Wilder wrote:
> WOW!  Intervention from on high?
>
> Seriously, Thanks be to God and careful counting..
>
> Ginga
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>



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