Religious Does Not Equal Crazy Right Wing Hypocrite

It's hard to forget this sometimes, and I do have some strong intuitions about how deeply religious people can more often be crazy right wing hypocrites, but it's nice to know that I may very well be wrong in that intuition.

After reading a post by The Green Knight delving into the idea that it is mostly the crazy right-wing religious people that are given any air time (vs giving the not wingnut religious people some air time, that is), I asked for some pointers to religious people who are forming coalitions to support same-sex marriage, and oddjob over there did give me some good pointers, which I'm passing along to y'all:

GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA (March 29, 2000) --North America's Reform Rabbis passed a resolution today under which the Reform rabbinate officially supports the decision of individual rabbis to officiate, or not officiate, at Jewish same-gender ceremonies. The vote--with an overwhelming majority voting in the affirmative--occurred here at the annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR), the representative organization of North America's approximately 1,800 Reform rabbis, the largest group of Jewish clergy.

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One local Episcopal priest, a prominent feminist theologian at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, has notified the bishop of Massachusetts that she plans to disobey him by officiating at the marriages of two lesbian couples this month; one Lutheran minister has similarly informed the bishop of New England of an intention to disobey. In both denominations, performing same-sex weddings despite instructions from bishops not to do so could lead to serious discipline, such as ouster from the ministry.

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