Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Canadian Yearly Meeting, Minute of Record, approved August 8, 2003

“Our experiences and discernment on this issue have been partly shaped by the presence in our community of wonderful, loving, committed same-sex relationships. We have experience of couples in same-sex relationships that are bringing up children in the same loving way we would expect any family we know to do. “Love makes a family.” We strongly object to statements by some religious groups that it is harmful to children to be brought up in same-sex families. Whether a family is a loving and supportive place, or is a harmful place to bring up children, does not depend upon the gender of the parents.”

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http://www.cfsc.quaker.ca/pages/documents/BriefC-38.pdf