Philippines LGBT church holds mass wedding for same-sex couples
The mass wedding at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Straight (LGBTS) Christian Church started at 8 a.m. in the morning reports Efe news.
The Church which had been at the forefront of a campaign urging the Philippines government to pass a marriage equality bill holds mass LGBT weddings known as Holy Unions every year.
The Church s website clarifies that the ceremony is pure rituals without the legal sanctity of a heterosexual marriage ceremony.
"Unfortunately in the Philippines we have no Marriage Equality Law or the Same-Sex Marriage Law yet " a guideline on the same sex Holy Union on the website said.
The country s Supreme Court on June 19 began hearing a petition that urged the government to legalise same-sex marriage in the country.
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