Editing Homosexuality and Quakerism (section)

====Australia====
Quakers in [[Australia]] are overwhelmingly accepting of homosexuality and will celebrate same sex marriages as they would an opposite sex marriage. In 1975 [[Australia Yearly Meeting]] officially stated:

<blockquote>The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia calls for a change in the laws ... to eliminate discrimination against homosexuals. This statement is made in the light of the Society's desire to remove discrimination and persecution in the community. The Society also calls on all people to seek more knowledge and understanding of the diversity of human relationships and to affirm the worth of love in all of them.</blockquote>

Australian Quakers have supported the celebration of same sex and different sex commitment ceremonies since 1994 and recognize them on an equal basis with other committed and loving relationships.  In January 2010, Quakers meeting in Australia Yearly Meeting in [[Adelaide]] agreed to treat all requests for marriages in accordance with Quaker traditions, regardless of the sexual orientation or gender of the partners.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsmaker.com.au/news/2189|title=Quakers call for legal recognition of same sex marriages|website=Newsmaker.com.au|access-date=12 January 2010|archive-date=13 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113103628/http://www.newsmaker.com.au/news/2189|url-status=live}}</ref> Before this Australia-wide decision, Canberra Regional Meeting celebrated the first same sex marriage among Australian Quakers on 15 April 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2007/1937145.htm|title=First Quaker gay marriage in Australia|date=18 April 2006|website=Abc.net.au|access-date=5 August 2007|archive-date=16 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016051601/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2007/1937145.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>