Quakers welcome debate on equality
Quakers in Britain welcome the decision (2 March) by the House of Lords to pass an amendment to the Equality Bill, which will lift the ban on religious buildings and religious language being used in civil partnerships in England and Wales.
Gillian Ashmore, Recording Clerk for Quakers in Britain said: “Current law provides for opposite sex couples to marry in either a religious or civil ceremony as they choose. But for same sex couples there is no such choice: civil partnership ceremonies cannot use religious language or take place in religious buildings. The amendment deserved to succeed on the grounds of both equality and religious liberty.”
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