Readers of newspaper "Vows" columns, which have lately blossomed to include gay and lesbian ceremonies, may think that although the Catholic and evangelical churches regard same-sex wedlock as ungodly, somebody must be churning out gay marriages wholesale. In fact, no major church offers a ritual for full-fledged gay marriage. True, the old liberal Protestant mainline churches have over decades bestowed on thousands of couples alternative sanctions called union ceremonies or same-sex blessings. But even these are ferociously debated. Controversy over them--along with a new argument about whether to enter the national fight over marriage in its civil form--may soon rival the...
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