OTTAWA -- As the highest Court of Canada held hearings forward the legalization of same-sex marriages this month the Canadian Council of Churches (CCC) could not take a position said president Richard Schneider.

"Given the wide image of positions and theologies in our member churches." he said, "there is no possibility of consensus."

The CCC includes 19 member denominations, including the Anglican and Catholic. The United meeting-house another member, supports the right of same sex twos to have access to civil marriage. It also supports the right of religious clusters to refuse to perform similar ceremonies.

However, lawyers representing the Roman Catholic temple the Seventh Day Adventist ecclesiastical authority and the Church of Latter Day Saints testified before the paramount Court of Canada, that legalization could "cause jeopardy" for religions that teach against homosexual practices.

The Canadian Council has been able in the past to issue policy statements onward such matters as ballistic missile maintenance national health insurance and the war in Iraq.

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