Ten years and 10,000 weddings: How same-sex marriage changed Scotland

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Exactly ten years ago, a change in Scots law meant same-sex couples could marry for the first time.
58% : However, Pope Francis has allowed priests to bless same-sex couples under certain circumstances.
57% : It took a further eight years for the Church of Scotland to decide it would allow its ministers to conduct same-sex services.
49% : Analysis of the National Records of Scotland's figures up to the end of September this year shows that same-sex marriages have taken place in all 32 of Scotland's local authorities.
49% : The last part of the United Kingdom to legalise same-sex marriages was Northern Ireland, where the law changed on 13 January 2020.
43% : Between then and the end of September this year, 10,138 same-sex couples have gone on to marry.
43% : So much changed a decade ago but the story of same-sex marriage in Scotland did not end on Hogmanay 2014.
41% : The Catholic Church opposed the change and does not recognise or perform any sacramental marriages between same-sex couples.

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