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[theweaselking]

Sweden: Dragged kicking and screaming into the century of the fruitbat!

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[krfsm.livejournal.com]

FI-FUCKING-NALLY, too.

[gothpanda.livejournal.com]

Swedish people are smart. Smart AND sexy.

[krfsm.livejournal.com]

I only wish we hadn't dragged it out for so long...

[gothpanda.livejournal.com]

Hey you're talking to an American here! Our conservatives drag every decision out as much as possible!

[harald387.livejournal.com]

Unless it involves giving taxpayer money to investment bankers. Then it's something that must be done RIGHT NOW.

[ipslore.livejournal.com]

"Actually, it's the Century of the Hippopotamus now."
"Well then, it's certainly overdue, isn't it?"

[gothpanda.livejournal.com]

well they have to get some benefit for all the money and vacations and other bullshit they give to our politicians. It's only fair!

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I thought it was the Century of the Anchovy, unless that's the joke.

[sanityimpaired.livejournal.com]

I read it in exactly the opposite manner. Dates from Wikipedia:
Homosexuality becoms legal: Canada - 1969, Sweden - 1944
Discrimination based upon sexual orientation becames illegal: Canada - 1995, Sweden - 1987
Equal rights for same-sex couples: Canada - 2000, Sweden - 1995
Adoption rights for entire country: Canada - not quite there yet, Sweden - 2003

Changing one perfectly good word into another perfectly good word that has religious connotations doesn't really change anything IMO.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Except "separate but equal" isn't, at all, in this case. Never has been.

Before this, Sweden's system was needlessly, pointlessly, stupidly bigoted and discriminatory. Now it is not so, in one more way.

This is cause for celebration.

[ipslore.livejournal.com]

That's quite possible! The essential core of the joke is unchanged, though.

[sanityimpaired.livejournal.com]

From the act itself:
"Chapter 3 Legal effects of registered partnership

Section 1. Registered partnership has the same legal effects as marriage, except as provided by sections 3-4.

Provisions of a statute or other legislation related to marriage and spouses shall be applied in a corresponding manner to registered partnerships and registered partners unless otherwise provided by the rules concerning exceptions contained in sections 3-4.

Section 2. Repealed

Section 3. Provisions applicable to a married spouse solely by reason of that spouse's sex, do not apply to registered partners.

Section 4. The provisions of the Ordinance concerning Certain International Legal Relationships relating to Marriage, Adoption and Guardianship (1931:429) do not apply to registered partnerships."

So how was it bigoted and discriminatory?