Iceland's Prime Minister is now the world's first national leader with a same-sex spouse. On Sunday Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, 68, married her long time partner, writer Jonina Leosdottir. The marriage fell on the international day for gay rights, which was also the first day Iceland legalized same sex marriage as a "union between two consenting adults regardless of sex."
Sigurdardottir and Leosdottir celebrated their union with a Lutheran church ceremony. The Prime Minister's office said she called the new law a "cause for celebration for all Icelanders," adding that, "I have today taken advantage of this new legislation."
On June 11, Icelandic 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.
Sigurdardottir has two children from a previous heterosexual marriage, but since coming out as a lesbian she hasn't suffered a lack of support since Nordic states have a history of tolerance on the issue of homosexuality.
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Iceland is doomed. God will not be mocked.
Way to go Iceland!
Muy interesante. Sin embaego, más humanos???
I dont think so...
XOXO
ADRIANA P.
Iceland is blessed for acknowledging and embracing the biodiversity of our species as it pertains to sex, gender, and sexuality. All of you primitive, close minded religious freaks are psychologically doomed to a life of irrational fear and misguided angst. Your intolerance is a mockery to this planet.
Its strange how the northern-most parts of the globe are always the first to progress (minus Russia oddly). Canada, the Scandinavian nations/region and now Iceland. Way to go guys, the people of Iceland should be proud and congratulations to the PM and her wife.
Another example of Nordic tolerance.
"Iceland is doomed. God will not be mocked."
BIGOT FAIL.
Go iceland!!! i consider the high development of human rights in 'northern' Western Industrialized Countries to be a result of the historic and continuing exploitation (economic, political) of the global south - otherwise, the 'north' wouldnt have had as much development (infrastructure, resources, markets), and would have been forced to respect the political autonomy of other regions of the world (no destabalization of democratically or other elected governments)... Nevertheless, nice step iceland - hopefully more religions (and other bastions of traditional and archaic culture) will start to accept this fact of life...
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