[Daniel]

But it sounds that though one has to be married or celibate to be ordained. What happens it one lives in MA? or New York for that matter, where the Appellate Court recently decided that there is no bar to recognition legal gay marriage?

Do these State matters have anything to do with this, or am I just muddling things up (church politics & matters of State) in my mind?

In any case, the whole thing sounds like 'doll house' politics. Move tiny figures around, pretending that one is doing something big, but in reality, the actions being done are small small small.

Small minded that is.