By WALTER GIBBS, June 12, 2008
The Parliament granted gay and lesbian couples the right to marry and
to adopt children on an equal basis with heterosexual couples. The
country's new universal marriage act, which also allows lesbians to be
artificially inseminated in Norwegian medical facilities, supersedes a
domestic partnership policy. "No longer will there be different
classes of love," Erling Lae, the chief commissioner of Oslo, told an
online newspaper minutes after the Parliament's 84-41 vote, adding
that he now plans to marry his male companion of 26 years.
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