The Church of Scotland is considering whether to allow ministers to perform ceremonies for same-sex weddings.

The Kirk’s General Assembly will discuss the issue in May.

Presented by the Theological Forum of the Church of Scotland, the group has called on the Church to ‘recognize’ its faults.’As a Church we have often failed to recognise and protect the identity and Christian vocation of gay people and believe that the Church as a whole should acknowledge its faults, whose identity and Christian vocation it has failed to recognize and protect,’ the report states.

While the report states that most people the Bible condemns homosexuality, they also suggest there are interpretations of scripture that even welcomes gay love.

It said: ‘Scriptural condemnations of same-sex sexual activity were framed in cultural contexts very different from our own and referred to individual acts rather than committed and faithful people willing to enshrine their relationships in vows before God.’

Even if the Church of Scotland allows same-sex marriages, it is likely the Kirk will ensure ministers or deacons to decline to carry out services to gay couples will not be prosecuted.

In 2015, the Church in Wales discussed same-sex marriages and ‘more than half of its Governing Body voted in favor’. However due to a need of a two third majority, the Bench of Bishops decided to approve a ‘series of prayers which may be said with a couple following the celebration of a civil partnership or civil marriage’.

It is written in the same-sex marriage law that the Church of England are expressly banned from carrying out ceremonies for gay couples.