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theHandpuppet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-30-09 07:47 PM
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UK's Quakers to extend marriage services to gays
Quakers 'to allow gay marriages'

One of the UK's oldest Christian denominations - the Quakers - looks set to extend marriage services to same-sex couples at their yearly meeting later.
The church has already held religious blessings for same-sex couples who have had a civil partnership ceremony.
But agreeing to perform gay marriages, which are currently not allowed under civil law, could bring the Quakers into conflict with the government.
The issue of active homosexuality has bitterly divided other churches.
But the BBC's religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott said the Quakers had been more prepared than other churches to reinterpret the Bible in the light of contemporary life....

More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8177536.stm
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imdjh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-30-09 07:52 PM
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1. Quakers have long memories it seems. k&R
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-30-09 07:53 PM
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2. This isn't the first scrape Quakers have had with human government...
...and it damn sure won't be the last. I'm happy to count myself among them.
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Betty Karlson Donating Member (902 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-30-09 07:55 PM
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3. This kind of news is so heart-warming
Keep the good news coming, please!
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