Denmark to get gay marriage

[Wolfman1982]

http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/2011/10/24/denmark-to-get-gay-marriage/64277

Posted on 24 October 2011
Denmark is the latest European nation to announce plans to introduce gay marriage, with same-sex couples to be allowed to marry on Church of Denmark premises.

The Danish coalition Government’s church minister, Manu Sareen, told local newspaper Jyllands-Posten that gay men and women will soon be able to marry when legislation is introduced early next year.

“I look forward to the moment the first homosexual couple steps out of the church. I’ll be standing out there throwing rice,” he said.

“I have many friends who are homosexuals and can’t get married. They love their partners the same way heterosexuals do, but they don’t have the right to live it out in the same way. That’s really problematic.”

Denmark was the first country in the world to allow gay civil partnerships with legislation in 1989. Public polls suggest around 69-percent of the population supports same-sex marriage according, The Copenhagen Post reports.

The first same-sex weddings could take place as early as March, 2012 after the legislation is passed.

 

[Stella_Omega]

That is excellent news!

 

[Wolfman1982]

That is excellent news!

yes it is. Even though I am not fond of "The Radical left" (the political party´s name), then I do like Manu Sareen.

 

[Wolfman1982]

Denmark to allow same-sex weddings in church

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/n.../Denmark-to-allow-same-sex-weddings-in-church

Nov 23, 2011, 10:55 GMT

Copenhagen - The Danish government said on Wednesday it wants to change the country's marriage laws to allow gay couples to have full wedding ceremonies in church.

In 1989, Denmark became the first country to allow civil marriage(registered partnership) for same-sex couples. The state Lutheran Church, to which 80 percent of Denmark's 5.6 million citizens belong, has been offering short blessing ceremonies for gay couples at the end of the regular mass, despite opposition from some clergymen.

The government plans to introduce the amendment to the marriage law early next year.

'The first same-sex weddings will hopefully become reality in spring 2012,' Danish news websites quoted Church Minister Manu Sareen as saying.

However, according to Sareen, Danish clergy would keep the right to refuse to wed gay couples.