Friday, December 4, 2009
What a month it was: November & The Transgender Community
From The Rev. Dr. Cameron Partridge, our friend from TransEpiscopal.
http://walkingwithintegrity.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-month-it-was-november-transgender.html (http://walkingwithintegrity.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-month-it-was-november-transgender.html)
November in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachsusetts has been quite the month on the LGBT front with big ticket items during our Diocesan Convention, to Transweek and Transgender Day of Remembrance, to this weekend's announcement about the role of clergy in same sex marriage.
At our Diocesan Convention during the first weekend of November, a resolution was overwhelmingly passed expressing our hope that Bishop M. Thomas Shaw III would give clergy permission to legally solemnize same sex marriages. +Tom has long been a supporter of LGBT people in general -- – and speaking as a trans priest whom he ordained, I mean it when I include the T – and equal marriage in particular, stepping out in support of equal civil marriage during this state's protracted battle over it.