In a previous posting on the atrocious Obergefell ruling of the Supreme Court, I closed with an outline of some possible options available to us.
The first was the Reardon Option, which I named in honor of Patrick Henry Reardon, a priest in the Antiochian jurisdiction. Fr Patrick informed us about a month ago that he had stopped acting as an agent for the State of Illinois by refusing to sign marriage licences. He would continue of course in his capacity as an Orthodox priest to preside over the mystery of Holy Matrimony but he would not be a party to the resulting confusion enacted by the State of Illinois, which has some problem distinguishing between the genitalia of the two sexes.
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