There is a rumor, and that's all it is right now, that John Connell, owner of the Peaceful Assembly Church has stated he would not allow gay weddings at his church for fear of upsetting the local Graftonites, or some such like that. It's hard to nail down. It is a rumor after all. And so I am seeking a clear answer from John to either confirm or dispel this rumor. He's using wildly ambiguous politician-speak so far and thus has done nothing but crank the gears of the rumor mill. Still no clear answer. Considering that he's trying to hold FSP-style events there and is asking for support, financial and otherwise, I think people have a right to know where he stands. This is an issue of substance for many people, and they do deserve to know.
Below is the latest on it, but the discussion begins
here on the NHFree forum.
Peaceful Assembly Church has, from it's inception, had a most basic and general policy intended to be as inclusive of all Peaceful people as possible, while at the very same time attempting to ensure that if "a little old lady" or a "young mother and her children" or a "grandmother with her grandchildren" were to come walking in to one of our events they would all be happy to be here.
On a lighter note, and at the risk of reading too much into it before John has a chance to expound, this explanation inspires some pretty amusing scenarios in my over-active imagination. I picture some little blue-haired old lady who's hobby is to brazenly crash weddings she hasn't been invited to... with her impressionable young grandchildren in tow, of course. She inadvertently finds herself and the kids at the wedding of two strangers, the union of whom she does not approve, e.g. two men, two women, a black man and a white woman, a Protestant and a Catholic, a member of high society and a peasant, two people with an age difference exceeding some arbitrary number in her mind, etc. She gasps melodramatically and spouts "Well, I never!" And then Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, who is in many of my imaginary scenarios purely for sarcastic commentary says "Yeah, and with that hair and outfit, you never will."
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