Popplewell: «Back to the UK, and the Quakers want to allow civil
partnerships in their places of worship.
«The House of Lords has already voted clearly in favour of allowing civil
partnerships in places of worship,» he said.
Not exact matches
«Allowing civil
partnership ceremonies to have a religious content and to be held
in places of worship is a significant advance for gay and religious freedom,» he said.
Such a move would make civil
partnerships effectively indistinguishable from traditional weddings, given that parliament recently allowed for them to be held
in churches and other
places of worship when it amended the Equality Act.
The change
in law to allow civil
partnership ceremonies to take
place in places of worship was made
in the Equality Act 2010 and is coming into force this year.