Daniel_Cheung
10-25-2009, 10:28 PM
Sweden's Lutheran church to celebrate gay weddings
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091023/lf_afp/swedengaymarriagereligion
Sweden's Lutheran Church decided Thursday to allow gay marriages in its places of worship, five months after they became legal.
Nearly 70 percent of the 250 members of the Church of Sweden's synod voted to allow same-sex couples to marry in its congregations from November 1 and adopted a marriage rite for gay weddings, the church said in a statement.
The Church of Sweden, which was the state church until 2000, had backed the parliament's adoption of the gay marriage law, which took effect on May 1. But it deferred its synod's decision on church weddings until now....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091023/lf_afp/swedengaymarriagereligion
Sweden's Lutheran Church decided Thursday to allow gay marriages in its places of worship, five months after they became legal.
Nearly 70 percent of the 250 members of the Church of Sweden's synod voted to allow same-sex couples to marry in its congregations from November 1 and adopted a marriage rite for gay weddings, the church said in a statement.
The Church of Sweden, which was the state church until 2000, had backed the parliament's adoption of the gay marriage law, which took effect on May 1. But it deferred its synod's decision on church weddings until now....