The Church of Sweden, an evangelical Lutheran church, was a state church until 2001 when it was "disestablished" in deference to the 20% of the population who do not belong to it. Until that time, church and state were so intertwined that only the parliament could change the prayer book or appoint a bishop.

After divorcing the government they've decided to join each other. A church committee has recommended the church blessing of gay civil unions. The proposal hasn't yet passed through all the hoops but is expected to survive. According to The Local,

The liturgical committee of the Church Assembly has said that a service of blessing for gay partnerships should be included in the church's official guidelines.

The final decision will be taken by the full Church Assembly later this month, but the proposal won a large majority on the committee, with twelve out of fifteen members supporting the blessings.
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Gay rights groups have welcomed the announcement, but Sören Andersson, chairman of Sweden's largest gay organisation, RFSL, told The Local that he would have liked the church to have gone further.

"While I think this is a positive step that they are acknowledging relationships is this way, I think it's sad that they won't offer the same ceremonies to all couples."

"It has taken 30 years for us to come this far; I hope it doesn't take another 30 years for us to be offered the same ceremonies."

Gay couples in Sweden can currently sign registered partnership agreements, which give them most of the same rights as heterosexual couples. Some individual churches in the Church of Sweden already offer couples prayer ceremonies after they have gone into a partnership, but this is not currently regulated by the church's ruling organs.

It will probably surprise many Americans that gay marriage is not yet legal in Sweden. But they're working on it—

A government enquiry, expected to take several years, is currently looking into whether gay people should be offered full civil weddings, as in a number of other European countries.