News release and background on Committed Relationships paper for YMG09

Quakers consider committed relationships at Yearly Meeting Gathering

Quakers have decided to treat same sex committed relationships in the same way as opposite sex marriages.

Please see below for the press release and full background information.

For more information on the Yearly Meeting and its other themes see http://www.quaker.org.uk/yearly-meeting-gathering-2009.

For news coverage of the Gathering, please go to http://www.quaker.org.uk/ymg-coverage.

For more information and for interviews contact Anne van Staveren on 07958 009703 and see www.quaker.org.uk/partner.