Two gay priests 'marry' in London church: report

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

LONDON (AFP) — The Church of England said Saturday that two gay priests may have broken its rules, after a newspaper report that they exchanged vows and rings in Britain's first ever church "wedding" ceremony.

The Sunday Telegraph said clerics Peter Cowell and David Lord "married" at one of England's oldest churches -- Saint Bartholomew the Great in London -- last month, using one of the church's most traditional wedding rites.

The couple had registered their legal civil partnership status before the ceremony.

The Church of England does not allow same-sex ceremonies in church, although some blessings have been carried out.

A Church of England spokesman told AFP they had "no reason" to believe that the ceremony did not take place but added: "What we...