Statement regarding same-sex couples

We welcome same-sex couples to our congregation. We recognize, affirm and support the same-sex relationships in our congregation and community. We offer congregational support and ministerial support for services of rights of passage for bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender persons. Rights of passage for same-sex couples conducted by our ministers and chaplains are recorded in the marriage registers entrusted to the congregation by the province of Ontario. We accord same-sex rights of passage the same worth as we do opposite-sex rights of passage. We therefore declare the following:

The First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto supports the legal recognition of same-sex relationships within the institution of marriage.
The First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto supports the Metropolitan Community Church in its use of banns to officiate same-sex marriages
The First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto supports its ministers should they choose to use banns as a means to officiate same-sex marriages