God parents should idealy be relatives.Why would it be inappropriate to go with what you originally said anyway, there aren't exactly any rules, its just who looks after you kids if you and the missus suddenly die isnt it?
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harpski,
Sun 1 Jul 2007, 19:03,
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Actually, the church suggests, very reasonably, that godparents, wherever possible, should not be relatives.The rules are that there be one of each gender (the parents can be the godparents if there are no others) but that there should be 2 of the same gender and one of the other.
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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley,
Sun 1 Jul 2007, 19:09,
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