Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical -- the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act; the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate.
Mild sexual abuse (with no genital act) is being touched on parts of the body other than the genitals in a sexual way against one's will or being forced to touch other parts of another person's body in a sexual way.
They can enter a civil partnership but are banned from getting married, and within the civil partnership there can be no "genital acts" (yes, the language in their guidelines really gets that granular).
It's unchanging position from a General Synod vote in 1987 is "that: homosexual genital acts also fall short of the ideal, and are likewise to be met by a call to repentance".
The Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 replaced a 1985 Act, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, raising the maximum penalty from five to 14 years in prison.
The Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 repealed and replaced the 1985 act in England, Wales and Northern Ireland making it an offence if a person excises, infibulates or otherwise mutilates the whole or any part of a girl or woman's labia majora, labia minora or clitoris.
The thinking behind UK law the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005 which makes FGM illegal at any age is that it is impossible to separate genuine personal consent from societal pressure.
The government has previously stated that the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 does not contain any exemption for cosmetic surgery, and it had no plans to amend the act.
Ali Haji Mao-Aweys, 61, and Omar Sheikh Mohamed Addow, 55, were arrested in Birmingham in May on suspicion of offences contrary to the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003.
Dentist Dr Omar Sheikh Mohammed Addow and GP Dr Ali Mao-Aweys, both from Birmingham, were arrested in May this year on suspicion of offences contrary to the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003.
Following the implementation of the Female Genital Mutilation Act in March 2004, it is an offence to carry out any type of FGM.
