Gay 'Marriage' Presider Invites 'the World' to Her Court Trial
By The Associated Press
Tue, Nov. 07 2006

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Presbyterian minister charged with breaking church law for performing a lesbian ''marriage'' has sent out invitations to her church trial next week.

The invitations from the Rev. Janet Edwards state that she is delighted to have "an opportunity to engage in the absolutely essential discussion that has to go on in the Presbyterian Church over the place of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people among us.

"The invitation ends: "Janet wants the world to come. Feel free to invite anyone.""Wow. It's a real show trial isn't it?" Jerry Van Marter, news director for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for Monday's edition.

Edwards, 56, a parish associate at the Community of Reconciliation Church in Pittsburgh and a minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), was charged in September with presiding at the June 2005 wedding in violation of the church's position on marriage. the rest