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All our consultants Reverend / Hindu Scholar / Imams / Rabbi / Sikh Scholar are supportive of same-sex unions and have a wealth of experience in this area from pre-marriage counselling to officiating marriage ceremonies across the globe.

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Q. Where can I find out more about same-sex marriage in Christianity?

A. Dr. John Boswell of Harvard University in his book ‘Same Sex Unions In Pre-Modern Europe’ lists in detail some same sex union ceremonies found in ancient church liturgical documents. The ceremony’s description can be found at this link

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Christian attitudes to same-sex marriage

The LGBT Ministries of the United Church of Christ

Quest: a Group for Lesbian and Gay Catholics

Q. Where can I find an officiate for our ceremony?

A. UK- the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement have access to ministers and priests who are able to help. To cover their administration expenses there is a cost to the service. They can also be contacted to help find a gay Christian organisation in your part of the world if you are not in the UK.

Q. Can someone be involved in a same-sex relationship and still be a faithful Catholic?

A. Certainly yes, not as a matter of public Church teaching but only as a matter of conscience, only as a matter of personal application of the whole of Catholic teaching to their particular case.

In 1975 the Vatican published a Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics. One of those questions was homosexuality. A principal author of that document was Fr. Jan Visser, C.Ss.R. In an interview published in the January 30, 1976, edition of L'Europa, he said: "When one is dealing with people who are so deeply homosexual that they will be in serious personal and perhaps social trouble unless they attain a steady partnership within their homosexual lives, one can recommend them to seek such a partnership, and one accepts this relationship as the best they can do in their present situation." One of the very men who formulated the Vatican teaching that homogenital acts are wrong allows that in certain individual cases one may not only permit but even recommend a homosexual relationship.

Similarly, speaking about Catholics who dissent on Church teaching about contraception, the Canadian bishops wrote in 1968: "Since they are not denying any point of divine and Catholic faith nor rejecting the teaching authority of the Church, these Catholics should not be considered nor consider themselves cut off from the body of the faithful."

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