All Saints, Jordanhill

Statement to the All Saints congregation by Rev Sydney Maitland in response to alterations to Canon 31 to permit the solemnisation in church of same-sex marriage. (Updated on 9 July 2017.)

The General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church today voted in favour of altering the church’s Canon on Marriage to remove the definition that marriage is between a man and a woman and add a new section that acknowledges that there are different understandings of marriage which now allows clergy to solemnise marriage between same…