MD. CLERGY GATHER TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE: From the Baltimore Sun

More than 40 clergy members gathered at a Bolton Hill church yesterday to support gay marriage and the same-sex couples who are suing to win the right to marry in Maryland.

The ministers at Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church said they hope to counter a widespread perception that all Christian clergy oppose gay marriage. An Annapolis rally organized by opponents of same-sex marriage, widely covered by the news media, attracted about 1,000 people last month.

"There's been a steady growth of some voices expressing opposition to equality of access to marriage, and it leaves the inaccurate perception that they are speaking for all of us--and they're not," said the Rev. Donald E. Stroud, the Presbyterian minister who organized the event.

Stroud said that 71 ministers have signed a petition--enlarged and displayed for television cameras yesterday--calling for equal access to marriage for same-sex couples. "We believe that both heterosexual and homosexual relations are capable of being sinful and of being faithful," the petition states.

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