Show of support for gay weddings

Published on 01/07/2012 00:00

THANK you for good coverage (News, 17 June) of the Ipsos Mori Poll showing that “more than two-thirds of Scots believe that religious organisations should have the right to conduct gay weddings if they want to”.

Your article states: “The Humanists, the Unitarians, the United Reformed Church and the Quakers are among the groups who say they would have no objection to hosting gay weddings.”

This suggests these faith groups are quietly acquiescing to this change in Scottish law; in fact, along with Liberal and Reformed Judaism, these faith groups have been actively campaigning for this change in the law for some time. At its General Assembly this year, British Unitarians overwhelmingly backed a motion calling on Holyrood and Westminster to ensure legislation is passed so that all couples, same-sex or mixed sex, have equal access to civil marriages, religious marriages and civil partnerships, with no wish to impose this legislation on those faith traditions who feel, for religious reasons, unable to comply.

Maud Robinson, Minister, Unitarians in Edinburgh, St Mark’s Church, Edinburgh