Church to allow 'gay weddings'
By Ruth Gledhill

CLERGY in the Church of Scotland are to be given permission to carry out “gay weddings”.

The Presbyterian Church is expected to bow to the legal situation of civil partnerships and give its blessing to civil partnership ceremonies. The Presbyterian Church, the national church in Scotland, will in May become the first mainstream Christian denomination to authorise same-sex blessing services if its General Assembly approves a recommendation in a legal report.

Such a move would increase pressure on the Church of England to do likewise. The rest