Question about English law on religion and marriages

[Volokh, Eugene]

	An English newspaper site reports:

http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/content/islington/gazette/news/story.a
spx?brand=ISLGOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsis
lg&itemid=WeED16%20Apr%202008%2013%3A51%3A32%3A940

Newington Green Unitarian Church, which the 18th century feminist Mary
Wollstonecraft once attended, has announced it will not hold marriages
until it is able to conduct civil partnerships for gay couples....

At the moment, the law bans any religious service from taking place
during a gay civil partnership....

	Is that really the law in England?  Many thanks,

	Eugene