Marriage ban mulled by church
Gay unions divide diocese
By MEGAN GILLIS, SUN MEDIA
October 10, 2007

An Elgin St. church might stop marrying straight couples if blessing same-sex unions isn't endorsed at the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa's annual synod in Cornwall later this week.

"If we can't marry everyone who comes to us in faithful union, we won't marry anyone," said Rev. Canon Garth Bulmer, who introduced a motion that Ottawa's bishop allow clergy "whose conscience permits" to bless same-sex unions.

"If gay people cannot have equal access to the sacraments of St. John's Church, we won't do the sacrament of marriage. It's a symbolic act which would be a gesture of solidarity."

Bulmer hasn't yet decided to take that step but his church council has discussed it as controversy swirled around Canadian Anglicans and threatened to split the church. the rest