The wedding ceremony of Jamie Wallace and Ian McDowall at the Rutherglen United Reformed Church in Glasgow was filmed as part of an episode on faith and marriage.
It also included a couple where the husband was an atheist and the wife was a Christian.
The episode has been praised by websites such as pink news and stonewall, with one author saying: “Places of worship should be safe spaces where we can bring every part of ourselves, but the exclusion I’ve felt in the past made me reluctant to bring my whole self to church.”
However, many have expressed disappointment in what they see as the increased liberalism within the church and willingness to accept culture’s norms.
Graham Nicholls from the Affinity network of evangelical churches in the UK told Premier his problem with churches, like the URC congregation showed, was that it epitomised what he sees as a departure from God’s word: “It’s normally not just the one thing. It’s not like in all other areas they’re very orthodox and Bible-believing and teaching the gospel and in this one area they happen to think differently…it’s more like this is a part of a sort of continuum of probably moving away from biblical Christianity and moving to a kind of religiosity which says ‘we won’t really define the terms, but we’ll say love is good and justice is good and inclusivity is good and that kind of means we…
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