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This hasn’t grabbed headlines like the news in California, but Norway’s upper house of parliament recently voted in a 23-17 decision, to favor gender neutral marriage laws. Same-sex couples will now have the same rights as straight couples in marriage, adoption and artificial insemination. I couldn’t help but post the accompanying image of Thor, the Norse god famous for his weapon, when I read this quote from the AP:
“We are so overjoyed. We have worked for this for so long,” said Jon Reidar Oeyan, leader of the Norwegian National Association of Lesbian and Gay Liberation.
“Now we are going to celebrate,” he said. “I didn’t dare until I heard the chairman of the upper house bang the hammer.”
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I want to live in the U.K. now.
Here’s an article from the LA Times on the opponents of the California supreme court decision, who plan to act in November when they cast their ballots in a statewide referendum, to either negate or sustain the courts decision. Sometimes these people say the funniest things:
”We are silent today,” said Strode, 71, head of a group called Bakersfield Citizens Opposed to Obscenity and Lewdness, “but we’re just biding our time. “We’ll have our say in November.”
Instead, Strode spent the day sending an e-mail alert to more than 300 pastors in the Bakersfield area, asking them to support a proposed ordinance banning gay marriage in Kern County.“Let the people of Bakersfield see the disgusting results of them getting married. Men kissing men. Ewwww,” she said. “Then everyone will make up their minds on what they want to do about it.”
From pressconnects.com:
“VESTAL — Binghamton University leaders are trying to find ways to cope with state budget cuts that left the school with a $2.3 million reduction in funding for the 2008-09 academic year.
Those cuts might lead to larger class sizes and vacant positions as officials zero in on ways to tighten the university’s belt.
“We will continue to think creatively about all of our activities and any possible innovations during this time,” BU President Lois DeFleur said in a written statement.”
Well let’s hope they don’t cut the funding for the 500 a capella groups on campus. Or the Binghamton Review.
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