At the end of the day everyone hetro/gay should be entitled to be in a happy relationship or benefit from the security of a legal marriage if that is what they want. It is about time today's church concentrated on more important issues.

Trying to be practical.


There is no reason why the state should not give identical rights to same sex partnerships as they do hetrosexual partnerships. The legal rights/ security issue in itself need not in any way be a church issue and if there are currently differeneces, it is the government not the churches that should be taken to task.

Onto church weddings, I do not believe the state should interfere with religious issues and I don't believe they are. I think in practice you will find some will and some won't.

The only way I forsee a problem on the church side is with some gay couples wilfully seeking out those churches who have decided that their faith does not accept same sex unions.