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	<title>Comments on: Church of Scotland appoints gay rev.</title>
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		<title>By: Scott</title>
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		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 15:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Church of Scotland has no ties with the Anglicans...the Anglican branch in Scotland is the Scottish Episcopal Church...just so you know...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Church of Scotland has no ties with the Anglicans&#8230;the Anglican branch in Scotland is the Scottish Episcopal Church&#8230;just so you know&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Morgan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Morgan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 14:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the word &quot;kirk&quot; is commonly used even in modern Norwegian for church and is one of several Norse words that likely came into Scotland with the Vikings from Norway.


The word for church in the Gaelic language of Scotland is &quot;eaglais&quot; (close to &quot;eclesiastic&quot;) or &quot;tigh Dhe&quot; (House of God from Gaelic &quot;Dia&quot; or God..close to deity)) In Irish it is either &quot;eaglais&quot; or &quot;seipeal&quot; (close to chapel) or &quot;teach an phobail&quot; (house of the people)

Civil partnerships for same-sex oouples are law in Scotland (Alba) same in the rest of the UK. Scotland has its own laws (Roman system whereas England and Wales-Cymru under English law) its own Parliament (Parlaimaid na hAlba)flag (yellow with red lion), its own national anthem  Flower of Scotland (Flur na hAlba), bank and bank notes as well as the general UK pound currency (Banca na hAlba,) its own languages beside the standard British English (Scots dialects and Gaelic-Gaidhlig), its own cusine, its own music in English, Scots dialects and Gaelic. The harp and a few different types of bagpipes are local to Scotland.
So Scotland shares in a national UK culture while it retains some of it own cultural identity.
However, civil partnerships are something that are nationwide in UK including its part of the North of Ireland.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the word &#8220;kirk&#8221; is commonly used even in modern Norwegian for church and is one of several Norse words that likely came into Scotland with the Vikings from Norway.</p>
<p>The word for church in the Gaelic language of Scotland is &#8220;eaglais&#8221; (close to &#8220;eclesiastic&#8221;) or &#8220;tigh Dhe&#8221; (House of God from Gaelic &#8220;Dia&#8221; or God..close to deity)) In Irish it is either &#8220;eaglais&#8221; or &#8220;seipeal&#8221; (close to chapel) or &#8220;teach an phobail&#8221; (house of the people)</p>
<p>Civil partnerships for same-sex oouples are law in Scotland (Alba) same in the rest of the UK. Scotland has its own laws (Roman system whereas England and Wales-Cymru under English law) its own Parliament (Parlaimaid na hAlba)flag (yellow with red lion), its own national anthem  Flower of Scotland (Flur na hAlba), bank and bank notes as well as the general UK pound currency (Banca na hAlba,) its own languages beside the standard British English (Scots dialects and Gaelic-Gaidhlig), its own cusine, its own music in English, Scots dialects and Gaelic. The harp and a few different types of bagpipes are local to Scotland.<br />
So Scotland shares in a national UK culture while it retains some of it own cultural identity.<br />
However, civil partnerships are something that are nationwide in UK including its part of the North of Ireland.</p>
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		<title>By: Wayne</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 13:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Clearly, there are many Christians who welcome LGBT people and wish us to be in ministry.  It is clear from the comments of Pastor Bell of the Zion Baptist Church, that many of those who try to deny a role and welcome for LGBT people in many denominations comes from members of other denominations who would be wise to mind their own business and support the right to freedom of religion on the part of those who disagree with them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clearly, there are many Christians who welcome LGBT people and wish us to be in ministry.  It is clear from the comments of Pastor Bell of the Zion Baptist Church, that many of those who try to deny a role and welcome for LGBT people in many denominations comes from members of other denominations who would be wise to mind their own business and support the right to freedom of religion on the part of those who disagree with them.</p>
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		<title>By: Ken</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ken</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 13:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Someone should tell the Associated Press that the Church of Scotland is NOT Anglican / Episcopalian, it&#039;s Presbyterian!  The governing body, by the way is the &quot;General Assembly&quot; which is composed of ministers and lay elders.  The word &quot;Kirk&quot; is simply the old Scots word for &quot;church.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Someone should tell the Associated Press that the Church of Scotland is NOT Anglican / Episcopalian, it&#8217;s Presbyterian!  The governing body, by the way is the &#8220;General Assembly&#8221; which is composed of ministers and lay elders.  The word &#8220;Kirk&#8221; is simply the old Scots word for &#8220;church.&#8221;</p>
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