Cleric confirms gay partnership

3 September 2011
BY SAM McBRIDE

A SENIOR Church of Ireland minister has entered a same-sex civil partnership.

In what is believed to be the first gay union involving a serving Church of Ireland cleric, the Very Rev Tom Gordon, who is originally from Portadown, yesterday confirmed that he had formalised the relationship under new laws introduced in the Republic earlier this year.

The Rev Gordon, who is Dean of Leighlin Cathedral in Co Carlow, said that the ceremony had taken place at a registry office on July 29.

A spokesman for the Church of Ireland declined to comment in detail, saying that it was a “civil matter”. the rest