One of the participant\u2019s in Scotland\u2019s first church gay wedding thas been revealed as Anglican Consultative Standing Committee member Alistair Dinnie. On 29 Sept 2017 Christian Today reported Mr. Dennie had wed Mr. Peter Matthews at St John\u2019s Episcopal Church in the first same-sex wedding conducted in a church. Mr. Dennie was the Scottish Episcopal Church\u2019s delegate to the April 2016 meeting of the ACC in Lusaka and was elected by the delegates to its standing committee.<\/p>\n
On 1 Aug 2017 the Rev. Markus D\u00fcnzkofer, rector of St. John\u2019s, reported that he had officiated at a wedding at a hotel for an American couple, \u201cMark and Rick\u201d. \u201cThis was not some pretty, fancy occasion,\u201d he said. \u201cThey wanted a religious ceremony and they wanted it to be a nuptial Mass,\u201d he wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n
On 16 Sept 2017 Fr. D\u00fcnzkofer officiated at the wedding of Peter Matthews and Alistair Dinnie at St. John\u2019s, making it the first same-sex Anglican church wedding in Scotland. Since the Matthews\/Dinnie wedding same-sex marriages have also been celebrated in Glasgow and Moray.<\/p>\n