Go, Scotland! Hurry up, Church of England. The Anglicans in the US (the Episcopal Church) have allowed same-sex married clergy (including bishops for decades.) And when the archbishop of Canterbury announced that our clergies same sex spouses would unwelcome at the last Lambdeth conference, many people were more than outraged at the lack of Christian values and human decency expressed by certain leaders of the Church of England. Truly horrible people, some of them. Reading their positions in support of that jaw-droppingly evil policy revealed them to be vicious homophobic bigots. To tell a person's legally married spouse that they're not welcome to break bread with you is just beyond disgusting. They'd better hurry up "discerning" and stop being such assholes. This is not what Christianity is supposed to be about.

I'm really glad you made that comment about non-religious people or people of other religions being allowed to get married in church. Although that doesn't reflect directly on the legality of civil marriage, I've often wondered about religious conservatives who make no objections to atheists or polytheists getting married. When they insist that religion must have something to say about who gets married, that it's a fundamentally religious act, they seem only to draw a religious line around people of the same sex getting married. It's odd, at least.

Here's hoping that this move by the church of Scotland will put pressure on the Church of England and that it will accelerate their process to do what a majority of the English people have been urging them to do for a long time. Dragging their heels is unacceptable, and they must stop dragging them now. Time to kick the homophobes to the curb.