This advice in the two documents below does not differ in any major substance from that offered on this website in 2016 with regard to marriage between same sex couples but it expands that earlier advice and also seeks to clarify it in some places.
- Guidance regarding Authorised Persons in respect of marriages of same sex couples (PDF | 380kb)
- Registration of URC Buildings for Marriage of same-sex couples (PDF | 1.8mb)
Marriage of Same-Sex Couples: Advice on Process 2016
- Marriage of same-sex couples Guidance (shorter) (Word doc)
- Marriage of same-sex couples Guidance (longer) (Word doc)
- Samples: form 1 (PDF | 5mb), form 2 (PDF | 85kb), form 3 (PDF | 100kb)
- Sample Wedding Service (Word doc)
- Sample Letters (PDF | 300kb )
Marriage of Same-Sex Couples, background papers 2014 and 2015
- Faith and Order Committee, On Marriage as Doctrine, November 2014 (Word doc)
- Law and Polity: Some Legal and Constitutional Advice, December 2014 (PDF | 55kb)
- One plus One - covering letter (Word doc)
- One plus One booklet - second edition (PDF | 530kb)
- Resources - preface (PDF | 250kb)
- Resources (1) (PDF | 430kb)
- Sodom and Gomorrah reconsidered (Word doc)
- Malcolm Brown bibliography (Word doc)
- Some resources collated by members of GEAR (The Group for Evangelism and Renewal in the URC)
- Resources from FURY (Word doc)
- Is there a theological basis for ‘same-sex marriage’? A contribution from the Revd Malcolm Hanson (Word doc)
- GA papers June 2015 (PDF | 1.49mb)
Marriage of Same-Sex Couples: Template Statements on Registration of Church Buildings
- Sample church statements (Word doc)
- Sample news release (Word doc)
Series by Carla Grosch-Miller
- Christian family values, Sex and the Bible (PDF | 515kb)
- Sex in the Christian Tradition 2014 (Word doc)
- Sex and the Spirit (Word doc)
