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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

As Withano said.It should be up to the individual churches as to whether they feel it goes against their beliefs.Also as Livia said you can't force one religion in law without forcing all religions.Now imagine the unholy ****storm on the streets if you tried enforcing mosques to marry gays?

I *think* they already do samesex marriage. But only if one of the couple identifies as transgender

'Transgender men and women are recognized and accepted in many Islamic cultures around the world. In fact, the idea of a man or woman identifying as a member of the opposite gender is more likely to be accepted than that of a man or woman expressing sexual desire for someone of their own gender.

As early as 1988, gender reassignment surgery was declared acceptable under Islamic law by scholars at Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the world’s oldest Islamic university. In Iran, in 1987, Ayatollah Khomeini declared transgender surgical operations allowable. The basis for this attitude of acceptance is the belief that a person is born transgender but chooses to be homosexual, making homosexuality a sin.'

http://www.hrc.org/resources/stances...t-issues-islam

Not sure if that link is biased or not. I only know about this because of a conversation elsewhere where it was claimed it is acceptable (to a Muslim) to be transgender but not to be gay. And that in predominantly Muslim countries being transgender is encouraged as it 'means less gay people'