Published 22 October 2009. States the Church of Sweden's General Synod approved, by 176 of 249 voting members, letting priests perform marriages, using that word, for same-sex couples, aligned with civil marriage legislation that had come into force on 1 May 2009. States individual priests would still be free to decline to perform such a ceremony. States the church had offered same-sex couples a religious blessing of their union since 2007, before this vote extended full marriage to them.
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PublisherThe Local Sweden
Publication Year2009
URLhttps://www.thelocal.se/20091022/22810
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Sweden's English-language national news outlet reporting a named, counted General Synod vote on the day it happened. NotesCited for Church of Sweden's sexuality-position and its detail.
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