Ms. Brown, 46, and Ms. Gause, 45, both pastors of Rivers of Living Water United Church of Christ have wedded.
The were joined together by Rev. Dr. Yvette Flunder, the presiding bishop of the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, who read from the First Epistle to the Corinthians.
The church has has locations in Newark and New York.
The newly wed couple, Pastors Twanna Gause and Vanessa Brown, tied the knot on August 24, 2017, at the New Vision Full Gospel Baptist Church, with their action causing a lot of rumpus among their congregations and other Christians in their community.
Most pained about the decision of the women of God was Gause’s father, The Rev. Sam Gause Sr., who is affiliated with the Center of Hope Church of God in Christ in Riverdale, Georgia, declaring firmly that his daughter was tricked by the devil.
Rev. Gause Snr. told the New York Times that he was invited to his daughter’s wedding to Brown but declined the invitation due to differences in theological beliefs.
“Twanna very well knows I’m not for that kind of lifestyle. I believe that God wanted us to procreate through a natural process, and by no means am I happy about this because it is unnatural.
I look at homosexuality as a mental disorder. If I start to tell you that I am an elephant, and start to behave as an elephant, that’s my choice, I choose to become an elephant. But you would probably choose to call a mental institution.
We all have a conscience. It is through that conscience that we hear from our Creator as to what is right and what is wrong, and if God did not want us to procreate, then why didn’t He just create billions of people with no gender at all? He must have had a reason for doing what He did,” Rev. Gouse Snr. said.
The couple met as choir girls some 30 years ago and have been dating secretly without letting out their true sexual orientations.
At the wedding, 45-year-old Twanna, who is listed as the Pastor of Worship and Liturgy at Rivers of Living Water Ministries located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side neighborhood, played the role of the husband while her 46-year-old wife, Vanessa, is listed as the church’s senior pastor.
source:nytimes.com
