Love? Are you quite sure?
Is it heresy? I think it is. It is surely blasphemy.
One hundred and twenty-nine of the bishops in the Episcopal Church (USA) House of Bishops voted yesterday to embrace blasphemy as a "trial rite" for same-sex marriages in the Church. The blasphemy begins in the rite at the point where the celebrant says to the congregation ...
Dearly beloved: We have come together in the presence of God to witness and bless the joining together of N. and N. in Holy Matrimony. The joining of two people in a life of mutual fidelity signifies to us the mystery of the union between Christ and his Church, and so it is worthy of being honored among all people.
There is even, perhaps, a stronger word: abomination. (But no one in their right mind talks like that anymore.) Instead, we only require more 'trial rites' that remove all trace of monoamory:
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