Norwegian government wants to end conversion therapy

09-11-2021

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Norwegian government wants to end conversion therapy

The Norwegian government wants to put an end to the so-called conversion therapy for LGBT people. It does not intend to wait for a study into the phenomenon, which the Ministry of Children and Families announced a few days earlier.

Prof. Terje Hegertun. Photo Verbum forlag, Dan Aksel Jacobsen

Debate among fellow-Pentecostals after "heretical" book about gay relations

What would be the essence of Christian marriage? That you love each other and that you are from the opposite sex? The Norwegian Pentecostal theologian Terje Hegertun focuses on something else: being faithful. When two men love and respect each other and remain loyal, this could not be contrary to God's creative will.

The Italian MP Alessandro Zan had to accept that his bill on anti-homophobia was voted down in the Senate on Wednesday. Photo EPA, Ettore Ferrari

Italy doesn’t equate homophobia to racism

The so-called “Zan bill” against homophobia will not become law in Italy. The Senate voted with 23 votes majority against this proposal on Wednesday. This finishes a debate that took many years.

In Sweden, most marriages are performed in church. Photo: Royal marriage in June 2013. Photo AFP, Anders Wiklund

All priests must perform all marriages, say Swedish Greens

The new action programme of the Swedish Green Party will mention that priests are obliged to marry people of the same sex. Exceptions based on religious objections can no longer be allowed.

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