Marriage of lesbian priests is another act of TEC 'defiance', says conservative Anglican

by Lillian Kwon, Christian Post
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Two lesbian Episcopal priests kicked off the New Year by marrying in Massachusetts.

The Very Rev Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, dean and president of Episcopal Divinity School, and Mally Lloyd, canon to the Ordinary, married on Saturday at St Paul's Cathedral in Boston in front of nearly 400 guests. The Rt Rev M Thomas Shaw, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, solemnised the marriage.

For orthodox Anglicans, the lesbian union was another act of defiance.

"This is another action of reckless disregard for the life of the Anglican Communion and the authority of the Bible by The Episcopal Church," the Rt Rev David C Anderson, president and CEO of the American Anglican Council, told The Christian Post. "They continue to ignore the Communion’s pleas for restraint and continue to go their own way."
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Robert H Lundy, spokesman for the American Anglican Council, noted that The Episcopal Church has long blessed same-sex unions. But the latest union between Ragsdale, 52, and Lloyd, 57, is being touted as a marriage, and the first lesbian marriage of two senior Episcopalian clergy at that.