And Then There Were Two

Back in April, I posted about the Douglass Boulevard Christian Church, in Louisville, Kentucky, and how they were no longer sign marriage licenses for heterosexual couples when homosexuals couples are denied those same rights. See post HERE.

Well, it looks like another Louisville church is following suit.

The Reverend Dawn Cooley of First Unitarian Church in Old Louisville announced on her blog that, while she would continue to perform religious marriage ceremonies for both straight and gay couples, she would no longer perform the civil function of signing marriage licenses on behalf of the state, until same-sex marriages are legal in Kentucky.

And her congregation stood right by her side, asking her to refrain from signing marriage licenses "until such time as Kentucky ceases to discriminate against same sex couples with respect to civil marriage.”

Cooley says that heterosexual couples can choose to have their marriage license signed by a justice of the peace, or they could "choose not to have their licenses signed, and stand with gay & lesbian couples and not participate in civil marriage until it is a civil right."

You know, just when I grow tired of all those religious institutions, and I'm talking to you, Catholics, and Baptists, that would deny services to everyone rather than offer services to gay men and women, someone like the Reverend Dawn Cooley comes along and makes me see that not all religions spout their love rhetoric while practicing, tolerating, and endorsing hate.

Hats off to the Reverend Cooley, the First Unitarian Church in Old Louisville, the Douglass Boulevard Christian Church and its ministers, and the city of Louisville, for proving that god is love.

First Unitarian Church in Old Louisville Won't Sign Marriage Licenses