Sometimes Danish politics confuse me.
Recently there has been a discussion among the Danish politicians about whether or not gay people should be allowed to get married in church (not get married, mind, they can already do that - just at city hall, after which they can have a blessing in church if they can find a priest willing to do it). The minister of state is for, along with other members of the party Venstre (the name means left, but it is actually right-wing, though hardly extreme), as are a lot of other people - those opposed has so far argued that the state should not make decisions for the church. So, possibly gay people will get church weddings soon - how nice.
But now a group of priests have stated that they think that everybody should get married at city hall and afterwards they can have blessings - that it is, in fact, not the church´s job to marry people, that it is a civil thing.
So, does this mean that in the future gay people can have church weddings, and the rest of us will have to get married at city hall?
Recently there has been a discussion among the Danish politicians about whether or not gay people should be allowed to get married in church (not get married, mind, they can already do that - just at city hall, after which they can have a blessing in church if they can find a priest willing to do it). The minister of state is for, along with other members of the party Venstre (the name means left, but it is actually right-wing, though hardly extreme), as are a lot of other people - those opposed has so far argued that the state should not make decisions for the church. So, possibly gay people will get church weddings soon - how nice.
But now a group of priests have stated that they think that everybody should get married at city hall and afterwards they can have blessings - that it is, in fact, not the church´s job to marry people, that it is a civil thing.
So, does this mean that in the future gay people can have church weddings, and the rest of us will have to get married at city hall?