Clerics call for gay ceremonies at religious venues

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Senior Anglican clergy have called for gay couples to be allowed to hold civil partnership ceremonies in churches, synagogues or other religious venues.

In a letter to the Times, clerics said the current law was "discriminatory" because it denied homosexual couples the same choices as heterosexual ones.

It urged members of the House of Lords to support an amendment to the Equality Bill being proposed on 2 March 2010. the rest