Michael Curry, the first black presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S., delivered a spirited sermon at the royal wedding on Saturday, quoting Martin Luther King Jr. to honor the love shared by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. “We must discover the power of love, the redemptive power of love, and when we do that, we will make of this old world a new world,” Curry said, gesturing animatedly as audience members laughed and wept. There was a black church world and a white church world. That was the given-ness of racism, not that anybody said anything.”The Episcopal Church embraced same-sex marriage in 2015, breaking from the rest of the Anglican faith. The Anglican church in Scotland faced sanctions for making a similar call.

Source: Huffington Post May 19, 2018 12:29 UTC