Valuing Marriage Like Freedom

Marriage won't be worth less because more can take part in it.

— Anniken Huitfeldt, Norwegian Family Issues minister, upon introducing a parliamentary measure that would make marriage laws gender neutral in Norway, recently passed by a vote of 84 votes to 41

[quoted in "Marriage Equality for Norway", Joe.My.God, 11 June 2008.]

Posted on June 11, 2008 at 16.24 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Common-Place Book, Faaabulosity

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Wednesday, 11 June 2008 at 20.37
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    Well, huff da, as they say! A well-deserved hat tip to my ancestors' favorite nemesis-type neighbors (grin).

  2. Written by jns
    on Monday, 16 June 2008 at 15.54
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    SW (whose initials remind us that he refers to SWeden–perhaps the most bucolic land I've ever visited–as the land of his ancestors), here is my favorite Swedish joke:

    What did the Swede say when he saw his first pizza?

    Hey! Who threw up on the leftsa?

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