Hooray! Norway has legalized gay marriage! Like 20 minutes ago! So in fact we have moved - in the right direction:-) Couldn't find recent news in English, so heres an old article:
Norway Moves To Legalize Gay Marriage
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: March 14, 2008 - 11:00 am ET
(Oslo) The Norwegian government on Friday introduced legislation allowing same-sex couples to marry and have joint custody over children.
The country already allows gay and lesbian couples to enter into civil partnerships, but LGBT rights groups have long complained the law does not go far enough and has created two classes of citizenship - one for heterosexuals the other for gays.
The new legislation amends the definition of civil marriage to make it gender neutral.
It also says that when a lesbian who is married to another women becomes pregnant through in vitro the partner will have all the rights of parenthood "from the moment of conception".
The legislation additionally states that in cases of adoption, both partners, gay or lesbian, would have complete joint parenting rights.
Family Issues minister Anniken Huitfeldt in introducing the bill called it "an historic step towards equality."
Read more here. I'm sure they'll write more about this soon:-)
Here's good reading too: Did gay marriage destroy heterosexual marriage in Scandinavia?
And Mark Morford talks about California and what's happening there.
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