Norway’s PM offers support for same-sex church weddings
The Prime Minster of Norway has offered her support to allowing same-sex couples to marry in churches.
Erna Solberg said she supports same-sex church weddings, but did say that the Church should be allowed to make the decision itself.
“Personally, I believe that gays should be allowed to marry in church,” Solberg, the leader of the Norwegian Conservative Party said on Wednesday.
“This is the way I, as a church member, want the church to go.”
She did go on to say she respected the decision of the synod to not take up a motion to allow it.
“We have separated the church and the state, and so I have to respect that it is the church who makes these decisions,” she said.
Norway legalised same-sex marriage in 2008.
