The government’s plan to legalize same-sex marriages before a general election in 2015 took an unexpected turn on Tuesday with an announcement that the Church of England, England’s most populous faith, will be forbidden by the new law from marrying same-sex partners, while other religious groups that favor the change, including Quakers, Unitarians and liberal Jews, will be allowed to “opt in” to the practice.

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