High Court scraps Dutch Reformed Church decision against same-sex marriages | AlexMitchley
In a judgment handed down on Friday, the court found that it was unfair to exclude members of the church from the full and equal enjoyment of all rights and freedoms that the church offers.Dutch Reformed Church maintains decision not to recognise same sex marriages is not unfairly discriminatory
In 2015, the church took a decision to allow individual church councils to recognise same-sex marriages, and also scrapped a rule that gay ministers of the church had to be celibate. A year later, in 2016, the church adopted a new policy, going back on the 2015 decision outlawing the acceptance of same-sex unions.
Reverend Laurie Gaum, his father Dr Frits Gaum and eight other members of the Dutch Reformed Church launched a high court application to have the 2016 decision set aside and declared unconstitutional.
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