[The Star-Ledger] Some church leaders around the state were sent scrambling to rework their services this weekend after a state Supreme Court decision affirmed that gay couples in New Jersey can begin getting married on Monday.
The Rev. Cynthia Black, lead pastor at the Church of the Redeemer in Morristown, said she had to quickly rewrite her sermon after the court ruled Friday not to overturn a Mercer County judge’s declaration that same-sex couples in the state could be legally married.
“My sermon was pre-planned, all about the earth, then along comes this ruling. As a lesbian I’m not going to ignore it,” Black said this morning. “So trying to transform a sermon about the earth to a sermon about the Supreme Court was a little bit of a challenge.”
