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?
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