Saturday, January 10, 2009, 11:27am
An Oregon church dedicated to equal civil protections for the GLBT community has announced that its clergy will not sign off on marriages for straight couples until gay and lesbian families have the same access to marriage as do straights.
A Jan. 5 article in the Ashland Daily Tidings reported that the First Congregational United Church of Christ's Rev. Pam Shepherd, seeing the act of signing marriage licenses for heterosexual couples as a form of discrimination against gays and lesbians, decided that in the name of fairness no licenses should be dignified with the signature of the church's clergy until all families receive equal treatment under the law.