- Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir
Iceland’s Parliament voted 49-0 to approve same-sex marriage today, according to Reuters.
In 2009, the country became the first in the world to elect an openly gay or lesbian head of state when Johanna Sigurdardottir became the prime minister. Iceland remains the only country with a gay head of state.
Iceland is a small country with a population of 320,000. Houston’s Annise Parker was elected to run a city with more than 2 million people.
The law does allow a religious exception. The Church of Iceland, a protestant denomination, hasn‘t decided whether to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies. The law says, “Ministers will always be free to perform marriage ceremonies, but never obliged to.”
Most people in the island-nation belong to the church that has roots in the Scandinavian Lutheran Churches.
This marks the first time same-sex marriage has passed unanimously anywhere.
Kudos to Iceland.
Onward to equality and fairness,
Joe Mustich, Justice of the Peace,
Washington, Connecticut, USA
And kudos to CT, most of New England, Iowa, DC, many EU countries, and many other countries and cities for supporting marriage equality in the 21st century.
According to https://www.icenews.is/index.php/2010/06/11/iceland-parliament-votes-for-gay-marriage/ it was 49-0 with 14 MPs abstaining. That’s not unanimous.
If only America could catch up with smaller countries.
Actually Chris, according to Icelandic news no one abstained. The other 14 members of parliament were absent for various reason.
HELLO AMERICA! ! ! ! ! ! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE. HOW IS IT THAT A COUNDTRY SO GORGEOUS YEAR ROUND CAN BE SO OPEN-MINDED AND THE BIGEST COOUNTRY IN EVERY ASPECT IN MILITARY, HEALTH AID, FOOD AID CAN BE SO FULL OF BIGOTRY. SHOULD WE SEND A BIG CERAMIC CUP FULL OF SOME STRONG MOJO FROM ICELAND TO OUR PRESEDENT B. OBAMA? WE DON’T SEE THAT THERE IS SO MUCH TO LEARN FORM BEING A SIMPLE SOCIETY AND NOT THE AND NOT THAT OF I AM BETTER THAN YOU SOCIETY, OR I HAVE MORE MONEY THAN YOU SOCIETY. STICK TOGETHER ANDLETS MAKE IT THE SOCIETY OF EMBRACEMENT AND HAPPY SMILES AND FRIENDS THAT ARE THERE TO THELP WHEN IN NEED LIKE THE GOVERNMENT IS READY TO HELP OTHERS IN 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES WHAT ABOUT OUR OWN COUNTRY,KIDS,PRISON REFORM AND MOST OF ALL SAME SEX MARRIAGES. HELLO AMERICA! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Well let’s see.. We can’t fight in the war, we can’t get married, we can’t share health benefits, we can’t be with our lover when hospitalized, we can’t get decent and fair employment, we can’t win child custody, we can’t adopt..
So why the fuck are we here again? Oh that’s right, to decorate, cook, fix computers, and do these asshole’s haircuts.. Silly me…
Wow, here in the south even the black folk have more freedom’s than we do.. Isn’t that amazing?
Wake Up People… Money Talks and Bullshit walks.. if they don’t want to give us equal rights then hit them where it hurts the most.. In the Pocketbook !! Make them finance your equal rights quest.. Short and sweet.. you don’t pay.. then you don’t get..
If I don’t matter, than neither does your haircut, or your landscaping, or your catering event, or your pathetic computer problem.. Go find some other “sucker” to do your dirty work.
I’m not better, I’m not worse.. I’m *DIFFERENT* and if you don’t want to deal with it.. then go fuck yourself and do it quietly while the rest of us try to continue living in this American ShitHole after learning that the assholes in this country seem to out-number the decent folk.
Now imagine for a moment, if shit became valuable there’d be no more assholes around here.
To those of you using the Bible as a weapon against homosexuality, you are wrong. Homosexuality is not a sin. The Bible is constantly being taken out of context to support anti-gay views. Scholars who have studied the Bible in context of the times and in relation to other passages have shown those passages (Leviticus, Corinthians, Romans, etc) have nothing to do with homosexuality. These passages often cherry-picked while ignoring the rest of the Bible. The sins theses passages are referring to are idolatry, Greek temple sex worship, prostitution, pederasty with teen boys, and rape, not homosexuality or two loving consenting adults.
https://www.soulfoodministry.org/docs/English/NotASin.htm
https://www.jesus21.com/content/sex/bible_homosexuality_print.html
https://www.christchapel.com/reclaiming.html
https://www.stjohnsmcc.org/new/BibleAbuse/BiblicalReferences.php
https://www.gaychristian101.com/
For those of you claiming homosexuality is a “lifestyle”, that is a false and ignorant statement. Homosexuality is not a choice. Just like you don’t choose the color of your skin, you cannot choose whom you are sexually attracted to. If you can, sorry, but you are not heterosexual, you are bi-sexual. Virtually all major psychological and medical experts agree that sexual orientation is NOT a choice. Most gay people will tell you its not a choice. Common sense will tell you its not a choice. While science is relatively new to studying homosexuality, studies tend to indicate that its biological.
https://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/03/differential-brain-activation.pdf
https://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/dn14146-gay-brains-structured-like-those-of-the-opposite-sex.html
Gay, Straight Men’s Brain Responses Differ
https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155990,00.html
https://www.livescience.com/health/060224_gay_genes.html
https://www.springerlink.com/content/w27453600k586276/
https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/06/16/172/
There is overwhelming scientific evidence that homosexuality is not a choice. Sexual orientation is generally a biological trait that is determined pre-natally, although there is no one certain thing that explains all of the cases. “Nurture” may have some effect, but for the most part it is biological.