Minneapolis Quakers take stand on same-sex marriage

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Minneapolis Quakers take stand on same-sex marriage
by: bkmn
Mon Dec 07, 2009 at 20:06:09 PM EST

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http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/12/07/quaker-marriage/

St. Paul, Minn. — A group of Twin Cities Quakers has decided to stop signing marriage certificates for opposite-sex couples until the state legalizes gay marriage.

"We're simply trying to be consistent with the will of God as we perceive it," said Paul Landskroener, clerk of the Twin Cities Friends Meeting, in an interview with MPR's All Things Considered on Monday.

The congregation will continue to hold both opposite-sex and same-sex weddings at its meeting house, but will no longer sign the legal marriage certificate for opposite-sex couples. Instead, couples will need to have the certificate signed by a justice of the peace.



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[WillParkinson]

1. I love their Oats!

Thank you, Quakers, for seeing equal rights for what it is.

[DesertFlower]

2. good for them. nt

[Divine Discontent]

3. Thank you Quakers of St Paul!

[Kerrytravelers]

4. Sounds like good folk to me. Glad to be a K&R of this OP.

[TlalocW]

5. Prediction

Conservatives will start buying Quaker Oats and then dumping them out into gutters in protest like they did French wine during the early stages of the Iraq invasion.

TlalocW

[Raster]

6. Freedom Oats. Support the troops AND the sanctity of marriage.

[Ukonkivi]

7. Re: Minneapolis Quakers take stand on same-sex marriage

Ah, it's Christians of good will like this which give the religion a good name.
I am happy to see they are spreading the love and compassion of God. Not the hatred of humans.

[Betty Karlson]

8. God bless them! N/T

[TygrBright]

9. Ahem. The Friends Meeting House address is on Grand Avenue in SAINT PAUL.

Correct headline would be: Twin Cities Quakers Take Stand etc.

Having been long-time attender of TCFM, and a native St. Paulitan, I tend to be picky about such things.

exactly,
Bright