Now let me get on with normal life, says gay minister

Published Date: 04 July 2009 THE clergyman who made history yesterday by becoming the first openly gay minister inducted at a Church of Scotland service said he was determined to return to "normal life". The Rev Scott Rennie said he had had enough of the furore over his historic appointment and wished to put it behind him. The landmark service at Queen's Cross Church in Aberdeen marked the culmination of six months of controversy that rocked the Kirk and threatened to create a lasting and devastating division in the clergy and church membership. But Mr Rennie, 37 – whose partner, religious studies teacher David Smith, is expected to live with him in the kirk's manse – refused to be drawn on the turmoil his new charge had caused during a short meeting with the media in the office of his new church. He said: "I am very... [read full story]                    

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