Norway pass law approvg gay marriage

Contents:

• NORWAY PASS LAW APPROVG GAY MARRIAGE
• IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL IN NORWAY?
• A NATNWI STUDY OF NORWEGIAN BELIEFS ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND LBIAN AND GAY PARENTHOOD

NORWAY PASS LAW APPROVG GAY MARRIAGE

Current statSce Apr 21, 1972Legal Norway fully repealed Sectn 213 of the Norwegian Penal Co, legalizg homosexual illegal, female legalSectn 213 of the Norwegian Penal Co fed sexual terurse between men to be a crime wh the punishment beg up to one year of imprisonment. Netherlands2001EuropeFirst untry to legalize same-sex marriage after Parliament passed the law December Zealand 2013Asia-PacificFirst untry the Asia-Pacific regn to allow gays and lbians to 2009EuropeThe law replaced a 1993 statute permtg civil unns.

Slovenia 2022EuropeFirst untry formerly munist Eastern Europe to legalize same-sex Ai 2006Sub-Saharan AiOnly Ain untry where same-sex marriage is legal; several untri on the ntent have passed laws that ban homosexualy recent 2005EuropeBeme the third untry globally to legalize same-sex marriage after a vote s closely divid 2009EuropeGay and lbian upl Swen prevly had been allowed to register for civil unns sce 1995. 1%) st ballots favor of legalizg same-sex marriage a 2021 2019Asia-PacificA urt lg prompted a change the law that ma Taiwan the first jurisdictn Asia to perm gays and lbians to Kgdom 2014EuropeLegal same-sex marriage took effect Northern Ireland 2020, six years after the change England and Wal. 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.

IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL IN NORWAY?

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.

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

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.

In June 2000, a 25-year-old Morocn man’s applitn for asylum on the ground that homosexualy is punished Moroc had his applitn rejected by foreign service officials and the urt found unlikely that the man risked imprisonment were he sent back to Moroc [R1.

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.