An encyclopedia entry surveying the Religious Society of Friends' internal division over homosexuality and same-sex marriage by yearly meeting, stating the true Quaker view is best analysed meeting by meeting, or Friend by Friend, since there is no central doctrinal authority. States Britain Yearly Meeting formally supported same-sex marriage in 2009, Australia Yearly Meeting in January 2010, and Canadian Yearly Meeting in 2003, while Central Yearly Meeting of Friends, Friends United Meeting and Evangelical Friends Church International condemn same-sex marriage and hold homosexuality to be sinful. States the disagreement produced a documented schism, Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends separating from Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends in 2017 over the question.
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A crowd-sourced encyclopedia entry, used because no Quaker body speaks for the whole tradition and the entry names and dates the individual yearly-meeting statements it draws on rather than asserting a single Quaker position unattributed. NotesCited for Quakerism's sexuality-position and marriage-position and both their details.
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