Should The Episcopal Church Now Embrace Threesomes?
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
April 24, 2014
Here comes the bride. And another one. And another one! Meet world's first married lesbian THREESOME . . . and they're expecting a baby in July. Doll, Kitten and Brynn, all from Massachusetts, married last August. Kitten is expecting a daughter in July.
The world's only "married" lesbian threesome are expecting their first child. Kitten, 27, is pregnant after undergoing IVF treatment using an anonymous sperm donor. The trio eventually plans to have three children - one for each of them, according to news reports.
Apparently, there is a word for this: throuple.
When asked what the benefits are to having three people in a marriage, one of the ladies notes that chores are much easier when distributed among three people. Good point. She went on to say, “poly-fidelity is not something seedy…. it can be a perfectly acceptable choice of life and love.”
The obvious question for the Western Anglican Church is, since blessing same sex married couples is now de rigueur, what possible reason could our trendy bishops have for not blessing - for excluding - committed poly-monogamous threesomes? After all, Jesus said absolutely nothing about poly-fidelity.
The so-called "throuple" worked with a specialist family lawyer who drew up the paperwork and drafted the ceremony so that all three of them are obligated and bound to each other.
While Brynn and Kitten are legally married, Doll is handfasted to both so the threesome are as equally married to each other as legally possible.
One wonders if the Episcopal Church will develop a liturgy for threesomes. Heavens! Why stop at just gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered when there is now a whole new level of poly-fidelity as yet liturgically unexplored? Of course to do so, would confirm that TEC is the church for absolutely all people, loved by a God who clearly endorses threesomes which means all that is left is a Rite to go with it all.
There was no word from lesbian Episcopal Seminary Dean Katherine Ragsdale nor her partner, the Rev. Mally Lloyd, as to what they thought of this new sexual arrangement. Ms. Ragsdale is the president of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. a loyal Episcopal pansexualist.
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