#equalmarriage — Public Fediverse posts

Time for a bit more about me..
I belong to Quaker Rainbow UK, a group of LGBTQ+ Friends & our allies. Our 50th anniversary was on 2023! It started as FHF Friends Homosexual Fellowship after a conference in Manchester 7 Sept 1973, one of the first groups within a religious body to support lesbian & gay folk in the 70s & the first in UK to affirm & celebrate equal marriage. That was one of the reasons I was drawn to quakerism. Another is the openness of UK Quakers to affirm folk of all kinds of religious or non-religious persuasion. Me I’ve since settled into a humanist/non-theist outlook. Another is the centuries (since the 1650s!) of hard learning that quakers have undertaken: how to abandon practises in human societies that have caused much suffering such as slavery, violence, war, the social class hierarchy, alcoholism, & in our day, the plundering & devastation of our planet
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3/3 #Quakers in UK were the 1st faith group to celebrate same-sex marriages, but we do have an inclusion issue. Non-theist Friends cannot marry in a Meeting house if they cannot say the prescribed words which refer to "divine assistance” & to god. The only option for them is to marry in a civil ceremony. We have not achieved equal marriage until it is open even to nontheists. #BritainYearlyMeeting #EqualMarriage