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Electric Monk

(13,869 posts) Fri Jan 20, 2012, 08:47 PM Jan 2012

Canadian Conservative Shul Hosts Gay Wedding

WINNIPEG — A Winnipeg synagogue is about to become the first Conservative shul in Canada to host a same-sex wedding ceremony.

Shaarey Zedek Synagogue will be the scene on Jan. 21 for the “renewal” of marriage vows between two men wedded in a civil service in Vancouver in 2004, the Winnipeg Jewish Post and News reported.

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The ceremony is the culmination of a three-year process intended to welcome gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) people into the congregation.

The first stage, said Ian Staniloff, the synagogue’s executive director, was to allow same-sex couples to buy joint burial plots in 2009. The second was to welcome them as members.

Read more: http://www.forward.com/articles/149552

Also posted in the Jewish Group, here http://www.democraticunderground.com/1223121

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Oh Canada! MarkCharles Jan 2012 #1

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MarkCharles

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1. Oh Canada!

Reply to Electric Monk (Original post)

Fri Jan 20, 2012, 08:53 PM

Jan 2012

Kudo's to the Shul, too!

This is what can happen when an entire nation has no problem with gay marriage.

Bill O-Rights

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2. Actually, it makes sense that the Jewish people 'get' the Torah more than the Protestants who