Tinsi
06-12-2008, 06:32 AM
Since 1993, Norway has had The Partnership Act which enables two homsexual persons of same sex to enter into a registered partnership with one another. A registered partnership has the same legal consequences as a marriage, with the exception of the right to have the partnership solemnized and the right to adopt children together.
Yesterday we tossed it out. If you're going to fix something, don't just band-aid it - fix it properly. So with a vote of 84 to 41 parliament yesterday passed a new amended Marriage Act which also include same-sex marriages.
The amended Marriage Act will:
* Allow couples of the same sex to enter into marriage. The amended act will also open the way for The Church of Norway and a registered religious community to have the right – though not the obligation – to solemnize same-sex marriages. Today The Partnership Act enables two homsexual persons of same sex to enter into a registered partnership with one another. A registered partnership has the same legal consequences as a marriage, with the exception of the right to have the partnership solemnized and the right to adopt children together.
* Repeal The Registered Partnership Act. Registered partners should have the possibility to convert the partnership into marriage.
* Allow married couples of same sex to be evaluated as prospective adoptive parents on an equal basis with heterosexual married couples. Today a partner in a registered partnership may with the consent of the other partner adopt the latter’s child, unless the child is an adopted child whose origin is a foreign state that does not permit such adoption.
* Give lesbian spouses and cohabitants the same access to medically assisted reproduction as heterosexual couples and cohabitants
* Give children of lesbian couples conceived by medically assisted reproduction same legally protection as children born in heterosexual relationships after birth through medically assisted reproduction.
http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=160736
Had to brag :)
Yesterday we tossed it out. If you're going to fix something, don't just band-aid it - fix it properly. So with a vote of 84 to 41 parliament yesterday passed a new amended Marriage Act which also include same-sex marriages.
The amended Marriage Act will:
* Allow couples of the same sex to enter into marriage. The amended act will also open the way for The Church of Norway and a registered religious community to have the right – though not the obligation – to solemnize same-sex marriages. Today The Partnership Act enables two homsexual persons of same sex to enter into a registered partnership with one another. A registered partnership has the same legal consequences as a marriage, with the exception of the right to have the partnership solemnized and the right to adopt children together.
* Repeal The Registered Partnership Act. Registered partners should have the possibility to convert the partnership into marriage.
* Allow married couples of same sex to be evaluated as prospective adoptive parents on an equal basis with heterosexual married couples. Today a partner in a registered partnership may with the consent of the other partner adopt the latter’s child, unless the child is an adopted child whose origin is a foreign state that does not permit such adoption.
* Give lesbian spouses and cohabitants the same access to medically assisted reproduction as heterosexual couples and cohabitants
* Give children of lesbian couples conceived by medically assisted reproduction same legally protection as children born in heterosexual relationships after birth through medically assisted reproduction.
http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=160736
Had to brag :)