570px|Map showing the status of homosexuality laws of the world. The Lutheran Church of Sweden will perform gay wedding ceremonies if the government legalizes same-sex marriage , according to Claes-Bertil Ytterberg, Bishop for the Swedish Church Assembly that is the decision-making body for the Church of Sweden . Sweden recognized same-sex civil unions in 1995, but full marriage between persons of the same sex has remained illegal. Recently government-appointed committee has concluded civil-unions law outdated and recommended that the parliament would allow legal same-sex marriages. Even though homosexual couples would be wed in the same way as straight couples, the church would like the ceremony to be called something else because "the word wedding is so traditional and is reserved for men and women."
570px|Map showing the status of homosexuality laws of the world. The Church of Sweden will perform gay wedding ceremonies if the government legalizes , according to Claes-Bertil Ytterberg, Bishop for the Swedish Church Assembly that is the decision-making body for the . Sweden recognized same-sex civil unions in 1995, but full marriage between persons of the same sex has remained illegal. Recently government-appointed committee has concluded civil-unions law outdated and recommended that the would allow legal same-sex marriages. Even though couples would be wed in the same way as straight couples, the church would like the ceremony to be called something else because "the word wedding is so traditional and is reserved for men and women."
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