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Quakers 'to allow gay marriages'
5:25am Friday 31st July 2009
A Christian denomination that supports same-sex unions is expected to decide whether to perform marriage ceremonies for gay couples.
The Quaker church, also known as The Religious Society of Friends, already offers religious blessings to couples in civil partnerships and are likely to extend this to same-sex weddings, the BBC reported.
If they reach a consensus at their yearly meeting in York, it is understood the Quakers will then ask the government to change the law, which does not recognise gay marriage.
The issue of active homosexuality and the consecration of a gay bishop has divided the worldwide Anglican communion, with the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting a "two-track" church was a possibility.
In a newspaper interview earlier this month, the Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, said homosexuals should "repent and be changed".
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Quaker church expected to decide whether to perform marriage ceremonies for gay couples
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