UK: Quakers Back Gay Marriage

Sunday July 11,2010
By Pete Maclaine

QUAKERS are calling for gay people to be allowed the same marital status as their heterosexual counterparts.

The Religious Society of Friends last year sanctioned the proposal of same-sex marriages after backing gay “unions” for two decades...

...At their gathering in York in 2009, more than 1,500 Quakers agreed to “treat same-sex, committed relationships in the same way as opposite-sex marriages, reaffirming our central insight that marriage is the Lord’s work and we are but witnesses”. the rest