Norway joins the Gay Marriage conga-line

Gay couples in Norway will be granted the same rights as heterosexuals to marry, adopt and undergo artificial insemination under a new equality law passed Tuesday.

The law replaces 1993 legislation that gave gays the right to enter civil unions similar to marriage but did not allow church weddings or adoption.

Opponents, including the Christian Democrats and the Party of Progress, argued that children need both a mother and a father in a traditional family; opposed assisted pregnancy for lesbians, and said the law was rushed through the legislature.

The law gives individual congregations and clergy the right but not the legal obligation to perform wedding ceremonies for gay couples.

scylis said:
excellent!

i'm especially fond of the last bit. there's reasoning being used there.

coyotemike said:

Not to go off topic on my own thread, but . . .

The last quote I put up there makes me think so much about the abortion debate. The anti-choice crowd seems to think that legal abortions somehow equal mandatory abortions, where they don't see that pro-choice also means the choice not to have one.

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coyotemike said:

Not to go off topic on my own thread, but . . .

The last quote I put up there makes me think so much about the abortion debate. The anti-choice crowd seems to think that legal abortions somehow equal mandatory abortions, where they don't see that pro-choice also means the choice not to have one.

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coyotemike said:

Not to go off topic on my own thread, but . . .

The last quote I put up there makes me think so much about the abortion debate. The anti-choice crowd seems to think that legal abortions somehow equal mandatory abortions, where they don't see that pro-choice also means the choice not to have one.

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bean said:
You just wait! Everything's going to go to shit because of this!



Hehe.

bean said:
You just wait! Everything's going to go to shit because of this!



Hehe.

dholokov said:
There's a Northern European quasi-socialist country that didn't have gay marriage until just now? I am shocked!

scylis said:
excellent!

i'm especially fond of the last bit. there's reasoning being used there.

Opponents, including the Christian Democrats and the Party of Progress, argued that children need both a mother and a father in a traditional family; opposed assisted pregnancy for lesbians, and said the law was rushed through the legislature.

Sydni said:
I can't wait until Washington joins the conga line.

My moms are "married" here, but it would be so awesome to see it recognized.

DevilsReject said:

every time i read something like this:

I cringe. Evidently according to these people, as a single heterosexual father, i am incapable of raising my daughter, like she is going to end up on a clock tower with a high powered rifle because she doesn't have a mother. I am very cautious about who and who doesn't meet my daughter, i don't want failed relationships on my part to equal people walking in and out of her life.

coyotemike said:

Good luck to them

Wait . . . you mean you are a child of a lesbian couple? And you haven't gone insane/started worshiping the devil/become a social deviant? That can't be right

Sydni said:

Yep, that's right!

And even more than just being raised by lesbians, there was a drag queen living in our basement, and my mother's first long term relationship ended mostly because her partner became a man.

That's right folks! Lesbians, drag queens and FTM's. And I still went to college on a full academic scholarship.

Suck it conservatives! hahahaha!

Sydni said:

Yep, that's right!

And even more than just being raised by lesbians, there was a drag queen living in our basement, and my mother's first long term relationship ended mostly because her partner became a man.

That's right folks! Lesbians, drag queens and FTM's. And I still went to college on a full academic scholarship.

Suck it conservatives! hahahaha!