Says here that “the Rev. Marvin Ellison will be featured speakers on November 13 on a day honoring feminist scholars in the Church at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.”
And hey look at that… says here that Rev Ellison claims same-sex marriage is only the beginning:
But those moral innovations may be only the beginning. Why not legitimize threesomes and foursomes? What about bisexuals, who are attracted to both genders? And why not abolish marriage altogether?
Such eyebrow-raisers are posed by Marvin Ellison, the ethics professor at the United Church of Christ’s Bangor (Maine) Theological Seminary, in “Same-Sex Marriage?: A Christian Ethical Analysis,” published by the United Church’s Pilgrim Press.
Ellison was married to a woman but didn’t find that estate “particularly user-friendly” and now lives openly with a gay partner. He’s a clergyman in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and was appointed to the panel that wrote its 1991 sex study, which was rejected as too liberal.
His rather superficial and repetitious book is perhaps significant in signaling a new strategy among liberal Protestants seeking to topple traditional sexual rules. Ellison no longer ponders the Bible passages that have been cited for centuries to forbid same-sex behavior and exalt heterosexual monogamy. He simply ignores them.
The headline news is Ellison’s leap beyond the current nationwide discussion to pursue long-term implications.
He thinks “a lively debate is needed,” for instance, on whether marriage should now be redefined to recognize “polyamorous” people, those involved with “multiple partners.”
The other speaker, The Rev. Renita Weems, is giving a talk titled “Baking Cakes to the Queen of Heaven: God, Goddesses, and Growing Up Black and Female in America.” No indication if those are raisin cakes she’s talking about, but I’m not optimistic.
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”...same-sex marriage is only the beginning…”
I don’t doubt it!