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Faith groups unite to back gay weddings

RELIGIOUS leaders who want to be able to conduct gay weddings have rounded on the hierarchy of the Catholic Church for seeking to deny them that right.

BACKING: Rabbi Mark Solomon and Rev Maud Robinson speak in support of gay marriage.
BACKING: Rabbi Mark Solomon and Rev Maud Robinson speak in support of gay marriage.

Representatives of five faith groups launched the Equal Marriage Scotland campaign at the offices of the Scottish Youth Parliament, which has made the issue a key campaigning theme.

There in a personal capacity was Bishop Richard Holloway, whose Scottish Episcopal Church is still debating the issue, who cited the changing status of women and the abolition of slavery as issues on which churches were slow to change.

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