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Related: About this forumClergy rally for Md. same-sex marriage bill
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/01/31/clergy-rally-behind-md-same-sex-marriage-bill/As fellow clerics look on, Catholic nun Sister Jeannine Gramick celebrates the Md. civil marriage bill. (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)
In a show of support for the Civil Marriage Protection Act being considered by the Maryland Judicial Proceedings Committee at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Marylanders for Marriage Equality gathered a group of sympathetic clergy at the Maryland Inn in Annapolis at 9:30 a.m. to push the legislature to pass the bill.
Roughly two dozen clergy gathered with several of the bills supporters, lawmakers and same-sex couples that would be affected by the bill prior to a lobbying effort at the capitol.
During the final prayer of a morning breakfast, Baptist minister Rev. David Gilmore told the group, Yes I am a traditional black baptist minister I dont always think like a baptist, he continued, however.
The minister hoped that his views would spread to his fellow Baptists. God will open the minds of the rest of the baptist community, he said.
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Clergy rally for Md. same-sex marriage bill (Original Post)
xchrom
Feb 2012
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MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)1. Good to see some "people of faith" begin to fight back against the haters in their midst.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)3. ok -- no expert here -- but that i know of -- they've always been there.
and of course out of some misguided politeness -- the progressive clergy never demand = time from the MSM compared to the coverage given to the Holy Outraged.
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)4. Been there, silent
They're finally breaking their silence. Good.
William769
(55,148 posts)2. Recommended.