Yearly Meeting Gathering 2009 » media coverage

Media coverage of Quakers and same sex marriage

simon — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:52:02 +0000

At http://www.quaker.org.uk/ymg-coverage

Interim media statement on same-sex marriages

simon — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:16:22 +0000

Quakers today will consider asking government to change the law to treat same sex partnerships in the same way as straight marriages.

For more information and for interviews contact Anne van Staveren on 07958 009 703
and see www.quaker.org.uk/partner

Daily round-up – Tuesday

simon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:15:44 +0000

Here’s our daily round-up of what we know about has been blogged elsewhere:

Jez Smith looked forward to Tuesday
Miranda Chadkirk explains the chatrooms
Ekklesia report on the opening of our consideration of Committed Relationships and also on the Salter Lecture
Gil Skidmore slows down
Les Hereward rounds up his Tuesday
Caddir is en-joy-ing herself!
Jez Smith on Discerning the Quaker way
Judy Kirby was in the Committed Relationships session
…as was Miranda Chadkirk

Marriage, Committed Relationships, and Equality

simon — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:00:07 +0000

“The Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship held a Gathering at Edgbaston Meeting House at the end of April in preparation for Yearly Meeting Gathering. Yearly Meeting will be responding to work done by Quaker Life in 2008 on the ‘recognition of partnerships under the auspices of Britain Yearly Meeting’”.

Read the full article

‘Quakers to debate holding civil partnership ceremonies’

simon — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:36:13 +0000

“The annual meeting of Quakers is to consider whether to request legal authority to register civil partnerships in the same way as marriages.

They will also consider whether to revise Quaker Faith and Practice, the book of Christian discipline of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain, to include equal treatment of marriage and other committed partnerships”.

Read the full article