Canada: Two churches ask to offer same-sex blessings
Moratorium still in place in New Westminster
Solange De Santisstaff writer
Feb 26, 2008

As four churches voted in February to leave the Vancouver-based diocese of New Westminster and the Anglican Church of Canada over changing attitudes toward homosexuality, two churches asked to be able to join eight other parishes in offering blessing ceremonies to same-sex couples.

Church of the Holy Spirit in Whonnock and St. Mary Kerrisdale, B.C., passed motions at their vestries (annual meetings) that asked for permission to perform the ceremonies if and when diocesan bishop Michael Ingham lifts a moratorium limiting permission to the eight parishes. the rest