Gay wedding for English clergywoman

A GAY clergywoman is to make history when she takes part in England’s first same-sex wedding by marrying her long-term partner.

Rev Debbie Gaston, aged 46, will join two other gay couples who plan to tie the knot in Brighton on December 21 this year. Gaston, of the Metropolitan Community Church, will marry her partner of 16 years, Elaine Cook, aged 53.

The ceremony has been made possible by the new Civil Partnership Bill, which comes into force on December 5.