Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Copenhagen Mayor Frank Jensen at Copenhagen Pride 2011
via Pink News:
The Danish parliament has approved equal marriage laws 85 to 24 today, reports said today.
Members of the sole house of the Folketing approved the gender-neutral marriage legislation today after an opposition amendment creating a separate system of marriage for gay couples under different terminology was rejected yesterday.
The new law is due to come into effect on 15 June this year, b.dk reported.
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Denmark’s current system of registered partnerships for gay couples was the first of its kind in the world when it was enacted in 1989.
Manu Sareen, the Minister for Equality and Church and Nordic Cooperation in the coalition government of the Social Democrats, Social Liberal Party and Socialist People’s Party said of equal marriage: “It’s liberalism, it’s diversity, it’s equality, it’s tolerance and it’s so beautiful.”