lioness and tottenham captain bethany england's currently planning her wedding. we're not getting married in a church. obviously, most churches, it's quite hard to accept for a gay wedding. would you like to see more churches do that — opt in to letting their ministers decide if they want to do that? as much as i'm not a religious person, i know that there's plenty of people out there that are that are in the lgbtq+ community. so i think to deny their wishes of what they want and having to wait even longer to find someone willing to do it takes away their special moment and the love that they have for each other. under the 2014 law, religious institutions were automatically not included in doing gay marriages. they could opt in if they wanted to, but most still don't. in fact, of almost 40,000 places of worship in england and wales, which you need for a religious wedding, only around 1,100 do same—sex marriages today. that's less than 3% of all buildings where those weddings happen. northern ireland measures things differently, but it's a similar story. of ne