Christian gay couple who claim they were turned down 31 times for a church wedding are overjoyed to finally tie the knot in a United Reformed Church
Shane, who is deputy mayor for Waltham Abbey and a councillor for Epping Forest, said: 'Honestly, I'd all but given up. But when I spoke to [Reverend] Tessa I was literally shouting with joy and jumping round the room. David didn't believe me.
'When we met Tessa she said, 'I can see you love each other, love is love'. It was the most amazing feeling.
'She said, 'Everyone deserves to marry the person they love' - and she's right.
'The day was so special. That church was a light at the end of a tunnel. They are so brave and we will always be so grateful to them.
'It really wasn't easy but it was more than worth it all. We thought it would never happen. It was like [the churches] were all reading a script - 'We'd love to, but no'.'
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Shane, who is deputy mayor for Waltham Abbey and a councillor for Epping Forest, said: 'Honestly, I'd all but given up. But when I spoke to [Reverend] Tessa I was literally shouting with joy and jumping round the room. David didn't believe me.
'When we met Tessa she said, 'I can see you love each other, love is love'. It was the most amazing feeling.
'She said, 'Everyone deserves to marry the person they love' - and she's right.
'The day was so special. That church was a light at the end of a tunnel. They are so brave and we will always be so grateful to them.
'It really wasn't easy but it was more than worth it all. We thought it would never happen. It was like [the churches] were all reading a script - 'We'd love to, but no'.'
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
