Published 27 March 2024, reporting that the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland's Synod of Bishops voted 9 to 1 on 12 March 2024 to propose to the General Synod a compromise allowing two parallel understandings of marriage, one defining it as between a husband and a wife and the other as between two persons, each priest choosing which to follow, with continued freedom of conscience to decline officiating a same-sex marriage. Quotes Archbishop Tapio Luoma explaining the rationale: a priest may still say marriage is between a man and a woman while the church recognises marriage can also be understood another way. States one of the ten bishops, Matti Salomaki, filed a dissenting opinion.
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PublisherEvangelical Focus
Publication Year2024
URLhttps://evangelicalfocus.com/europe/25982/samesex-marriages-in-finland-lutheran-church-bishops-plans-unlikely-to-succeed-for-now
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Independent European religion journalism reporting a named bishops' vote with a quoted archbishop and a named dissenter. NotesCited for Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland's marriage-position detail.
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