Sweden’s Lutheran church names first lesbian bishop
(Stockholm) Sweden’s Lutheran church consecrated its first openly gay bishop, just two weeks after it gave clergy the right to wed same-sex couples.
Eva Brunne became bishop of Stockholm’s diocese in a ceremony Sunday.
She lives in a “registered partnership” with another woman, a civil union between gays used in Sweden before …
Sweden OKs gay marriage
(Stockholm) Sweden on Wednesday became the seventh country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
Following a five-hour debate in Parliament, the legislation was overwhelmingly passed on a 261 to 22 vote, with 16 abstentions. The new law will go into effect May 1, replacing a 1995 law that allowed civil …
Swedish court: Canadian gay marriage not legal
(Stockholm) Sweden’s highest court ruled Tuesday that a same-sex couple married in Canada are not married but in a civil union.
The Supreme Administrative Court said that Swedish law does not recognize same-sex marriage and that the couple cannot pay income tax at the lower rate allowed for married couples.
Lars Gardfeldt …
