Gay marriage issue hits county's interfaith service (NC)

From Charlotte, NC....
Long article well worth reading.

Gay marriage issue hits county's interfaith service

By Tim Funk and Michael Gordon
tfunk@charlotteobserver.com mgordon@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013

One Catholic Church in Charlotte fired music director Steav Bates-Congdon after he married his longtime male partner.

Now another has pulled out of hosting the city's largest interfaith service rather than allow Bates-Congdon to be part of the team planning the annual event.

Mecklenburg Ministries’ 38th annual Thanksgiving Interfaith Service is still on for Nov. 26. But it’ll be held at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Dilworth, not at St. Matthew Catholic Church in Ballanytne – Charlotte’s biggest house of worship.

And Bates-Congdon, now music director at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Fort Mill, will play a prominent role in the interfaith musical program – as he has for several years....

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/10/20/4402683/st-matthew-drops-plan-to-host.html#.UmdIf6_D-M8#storylink=cpy