Church of Scotland will allow same-sex marriages for first time
weddings.She said: ‘There will be colleagues who will decide not to conduct these ceremonies and I respect that.‘But for me, irrespective of gender, if people love one another and want to show commitment, I want to help them do that.’You could get paid £61,000 a year to move to a remote island and teach four pupilsMan vows to do bungee jump every 200 seconds for 24 hours to break world recordBig screens to show Platinum Jubilee events in Britain's capital citiesThe Covenant Fellowship Scotland, a think tank of evangelicals within the Church, said: ‘This decision contradicts everything the Bible has to say about the complementary nature of men and women, and of the character and purposes of marriage.’Meanwhile, new figures show the Church of Scotland now has 280,000 members – a fall of 34 per cent in the past decade.Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.For more stories like this, check our news page.
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