Meeting for Sufferings: Quakers to stop offering civil partnerships

Same sex Quaker weddings will be registered as religious marriages

by Elinor Smallman 18th April 2014

Same sex Quaker weddings will, henceforth, be registered as religious marriages and no civil partnership option will be offered, it was decided at Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) on Saturday 5 April.  In 2012 MfS accepted the registration of religious premises for civil partnerships as a first step towards a change in legislation to allow same sex marriage.