The Swedish Wire website reports today that Finland's state church took a step towards accepting gay relationships with an announcement on November 19, 2010 that it would create a "prayer moment" for registered partnerships.
"The proposal offers a positive opportunity to minister to church members who are sexual minorities," the General Synod, the Evangelical Lutheran Church's highest administrative body, said in a statement.
Lutheran ministers will have the choice of performing the prayer with gay couples in a church, but it will not constitute a church's blessing of the union itself, synod spokesman Mark Kailasmaa said.
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