Eero Huovinen, the bishop of Helsinki at the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland, said Monday that the church might have to consider relinquishing its power of legal solemnisation if Parliament passed a same-sex marriage bill into law.

Huovinen was commenting on a proposal by Bjarne Kallis, a Christian Democrat MP.
Huovinen added that in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church marriage was an institution between a man and a woman.

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