With the new law, married homosexual couples will be on equal footing with married heterosexual couples and will have the same rights regarding adoption and artificial inseminations.

Among other things, the new legislation replaces the "registered partnership" law from 1993, a law which gave Norwegian homosexuals the right to civil unions.

Religious institutions will still be allowed to opt-out of wedding gay couples, and health care workers who do not want to perform artificial inseminations on lesbians because of their personal convictions will not be under any obligation to carry out the procedure.

Last update: 01-31-2009 14:18

Posted by Olav Owre, on 06-16-2008 17:35, 1. Mr The world is going forward step by step. I'm Norwegian, and right now I'm very proud of it. The majority in the parliament was big, 84 against 41! Only the Christian party and the extreme right wing party was 100 % against the new legislation.   » Report this comment to administrator