Canada: Renegade B.C. priest to bless same-sex unions
Louise Dickson, CanWest News Service
Saturday, June 30, 2007

VICTORIA -- Father Antonio Osorio is inviting lesbian and gay couples to be blessed at St. Saviour's Anglican Church this Sunday.

"They need to know they are not second-class Christians," said Osorio. "I am going to bless them as a group because they are faithful and beautiful Christians. And if they want to be blessed as individual couples, I will do it too."

The blessing taking place at the morning mass is not a marriage ceremony.

Osorio will also ask his gay parishioners to bless him.

"It will mean in God's eyes they are equal to me," he said.

Last weekend, the Anglican Church of Canada voted not to allow its priests to bless same-sex partnerships. the rest