This is the stupidest thing I've read today. There is nothing 'sexist' about a father giving his daughter away. It's symbolic, the father giving the charge to look after his daughter to her husband, nothing sexist at all!!

BRIDES in Stockholm who want their fathers to walk them down the aisle are likely to be told it can't be done, as some pastors are refusing to allow the practice they say is sexist, a pastor said today.

"In Sweden we have worked hard in many different ways to eliminate everything that is unequal," a Lutheran Church vicar in the Stockholm region, Yvonne Hallin, told AFP.

She said she would not allow the custom in her parish, and noted that Stockholm's bishop issued a recommendation in 2003 that pastors discourage it.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22462257-13762,00.html