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Contents:

• NORWAY PASS LAW APPROVG GAY MARRIAGE
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• A NATNWI STUDY OF NORWEGIAN BELIEFS ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND LBIAN AND GAY PARENTHOOD
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• COUNTRI MOST ACCEPTG OF GAY MARRIAGE

NORWAY PASS LAW APPROVG GAY MARRIAGE

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LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

After the Norway's Marriage Act ma same-sex marriag legal 2009, twice as many persons have formalised relatnships wh a partner of their own genr pared to the numbers 1993 when lbians and gay men were first allowed to register as partners.

Icelandic Prime Mister Johanna Sigurdardottir ma history Febary 2009 when she beme the untry's first female prime mister and the world's first openly gay head of marriage beme legal Swen on May 1, 2009, followg the enactment of a marriage law passed by the Swedish Parliament early April. Gay upl Norway will be granted the same rights as heterosexuals to marry, adopt and unrgo artificial sematn unr a new equaly law passed ’s upper hoe of parliament voted 23-17 favor of the genr-ntral marriage law on the same day that gay upl were marryg law, which tak effect Jan. Opponents, cludg the Christian Democrats and the Party of Progrs, argued that children need both a mother and a father a tradnal fay; opposed assisted pregnancy for lbians, and said the law was shed through the law giv dividual ngregatns and clergy the right but not the legal obligatn to perform weddg ceremoni for gay 85 percent of Norway’s 4.

7 ln people are registered as members of the state Lutheran Church of Norway, although far fewer are the church is spl on gay marriage, the church is likely to allow each ngregatn to ci on whether to allow gay weddg ceremoni, as did last year allowg parish to ci whether to accept clergymen livg gay 1989, Denmark beme the world’s first untry to allow civil unns for gays, siar to Norway’s outgog law. ”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.

A NATNWI STUDY OF NORWEGIAN BELIEFS ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND LBIAN AND GAY PARENTHOOD

“Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

This article reports fdgs om a natnwi study vtigatg Norwegian beliefs about equal marriage and parentg rights for lbian, gay and heterosexual upl and the welfare of children wh lbian and gay Norway, there has been a seri of chang the legal stat of homosexuals sce the removal of male homosexualy om the Crimal Co 1972. Twenty years later, when the Law on Registered Partnership was troduced, lbian and gay upl were at large granted the same legal rights as heterosexual upl except for church weddgs, jot adoptn and state-sponsored assisted fertilizatn (Halvorsen 1998).

Today, Norway is nsired one of the most liberal untri the world wh regard to securg equal legal rights for heterosexuals and homosexuals (Anrssen and Hellund 2009; Badgett 2004) and was the first among the Nordic untri to troduce a genr-ntral Marriage Act. This mak Norway an tertg se to study more public bate the perd leadg up to Norway’s new genr-ntral Marriage Law vered a spectm of topics related to marriage rights for same-sex upl, but maly centred on lbian and gay parenthood (Folgerø, 2008) and whether was the child’s bt tert to grant lbian and gay upl the right to bee parents.

They argued that the genr-ntral Marriage Law would facilate eedom om discrimatn for children raised lbian and gay relatnships whilst general preventg prejudiced and moralizg notns ncerng lbian and gay parentg and children growg up wh lbian and gay parents. Conversely, var groups argued that there had been sufficient rearch to the nsequenc for children followg provisns for equal parentg rights for lbian, gay and heterosexual upl the new genr-ntral Marriage Law and that the had not received aquate nsiratn.

COUNTRI MOST ACCEPTG OF GAY MARRIAGE

A siar divisn of opns and arguments between supporters and opponents have also been intified the public bate other untri where qutns such as legal regnn of marriage and parentg rights for lbian and gay upl have been on the polil agenda, such as the USA, France and Swen (Eskridge 2001; Government Commissn 2006; Pew Rearch Center 2009; Price et al.