The motion suggests that the Scottish Government should recognise the "shift in public attitudes within its current consultation on equal marriage", and that establishing equal marriage and mixed sex civil partnerships would "in no way undermine the rights and freedoms of those religious bodies which do not wish to participate in them".

The head of the Scottish Episcopal Church also voiced his support for gay marriage this month. The Most Rev David Chillingworth wrote that it is the government's right to legislate for the change.