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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJune 11th, 2010
From Reuters:
The Althingi parliament voted 49 to zero to change the wording of marriage legislation to include matrimony between “man and man, woman and woman,” in addition to unions between men and women.
Unanimous. Very cool.
Iceland’s protestant church has yet to decide whether to allow same-sex marriages in church, although the law says “ministers will always be free to perform (gay) marriage ceremonies, but never obliged to.”
Our heartfelt congratulations.
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TampaZeke
June 11th, 2010
My pick for who would be first.
It looks like my pick for second, Nepal, may be out of the running for while due to technical difficulties.
Strange that no other gay blog has posted this story yet.
BTB, first to the punch with the IMPORTANT stories, once again.
TampaZeke
June 11th, 2010
Oh, I forgot the most important thing…
CONGRATS ICELAND!
Chris McCoy
June 11th, 2010
Til hamingju!
Ben Mathis
June 11th, 2010
I knew it would pass, but I had no idea it would be unanimous. I predict tonight at the gay bar will be quite the party.
Eddie89
June 11th, 2010
Congratulations to ALL the people of Iceland!!!
Rob
June 11th, 2010
I’m surprised it took them that long. Then again they are facing a serious financial collapse.
TampaZeke
June 11th, 2010
Alright Finland and Denmark, it’s all up to you now. You are the last holdouts in Scandinavia. Denmark was the FIRST country to pass partnership recognition for gay couples. It’s odd that they are one of the last in Scandinavia to grant full marriage equality.
TampaZeke
June 11th, 2010
I forgot Greenland; but I think as goes Denmark, so goes Greenland.
Richard Rush
June 11th, 2010
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to live in a country where very few people are obsessed with religion? According to Wikipedia:
Once again we can observe that reduced obsession with religion seems to correlate with reduced social dysfunction and higher moral standards.
Congratulations, Icelanders, for creating such a wonderful country for yourselves!
Audrey the Liberal
June 11th, 2010
Gay marriage is great, but what Iceland really needs are some vowels.
Douglas
June 11th, 2010
Audrey wins the thread!
Burr
June 11th, 2010
Can’t wait for the usual yahoos to blame the next volcanic eruption on this. :P
johnathan
June 11th, 2010
TampaZeke: You are correct. Greenland is part of Denmark.
johnathan
June 11th, 2010
Oops…CONGRATULATIONS Iceland! Now, I need to seriously think about getting the hell out of this country. If only I could get used to the idea of the bitter cold.
Well, at least Spain and Portugal are at least available.
grendel
June 12th, 2010
johnathan – you might be surprised at how mild the climate of Iceland is. And here in Victoria, British Columbia, the climate is practically mediterranean – Short mild winters and dry sunny summers. And unlike Spain and Portgual, Canada welcomes immigrants.
Timothy (TRiG)
June 13th, 2010
Congratulations Iceland!
Audrey, if Iceland is short of vowels, Wales is in a critical condition!
Richard Rush,
A remarkably consistent finding, actually. (I really do love the barmaid.)
TRiG.
Timothy Kincaid
June 14th, 2010
Richard,
That may not be so close of a correlation on an international level. It seems to be a bit of a mixed bag.
Going by church attendance, there are two countries with higher attendence than the US who already have marriage equality: Portugal and South Africa.
But within the US, there is a pretty stong correlation.
Richard Rush
June 14th, 2010
Timothy,
Could these tidbits from Wikipedia possibly begin to explain some differences in Portugal from other predominantly Roman Catholic countries?
I have nothing to say or cite about South Africa.
Timothy Kincaid
June 15th, 2010
Richard,
Yes, I think it does speak to social attitudes. Perhaps it is less about the extent to which an area is religious and more about the way in which they view the divine.
A culture that is less observant but who has an angry demanding god may be less tolerant than one in which folks more regularly worship a benign deity. Or, perhaps, it’s vice versa. Perhaps tolerant cultures trend towards tolerant gods.
Richard Rush
June 15th, 2010
Timothy wrote:
I agree.
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