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February 14, 2012
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How Moderate success could doom the Alliance
Analysis & Opinion: 6 Dec 10
While Sweden's Moderate Party enjoys record high support, the struggle by its junior partners for recognition could ultimately spell the end of the four-party centre-right Alliance, contributor Naomi Powell explains.
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SAS to host first mile-high gay wedding
Society: 2 Sep 10
Scandinavian airline SAS has begun the search for a suitable couple to walk down the aisle after announcing plans to play host to the first-ever airborne gay wedding in December.
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Church calls for swear ban after gay sex rant
Society: 29 Jul 10
The Church of Sweden is being asked to introduce football-style penalties for swearing, after a priest used foul language at last year’s meeting of the church’s governing body.
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Bishop blasts pastor over anal sex outburst
Society: 9 Dec 09
Church of Sweden pastor and gay marriage opponent Dag Sandahl has drawn the ire of senior clergy after launching a foul-mouthed attack on gay sex at an October church summit.
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Sweden's first lesbian bishop consecrated in Uppsala
Society: 9 Nov 09
The Church of Sweden on Sunday ordained a female pastor as the country's first openly homosexual bishop, just weeks after approving gay marriages.
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Church of Sweden says yes to gay marriage
National: 22 Oct 09
The Synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden has come down in favour of church weddings for homosexuals in a vote held on Thursday morning.
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Gains for gay marriage foes in church elections
Society: 21 Sep 09
Opponents of same-sex marriage made significant gains in Sweden’s church elections on Sunday, on a voter turnout of barely 12 percent.
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Gay spouses 'still being registered as partners'
Society: 27 Jul 09
Gay marriage has been permitted in Sweden since May, but same-sex married couples are still being registered by the tax office as domestic partners.
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Anglo-Swedish rift over church gay marriage
Society: 16 Jul 09
The Church of England has condemned a proposal by the Church of Sweden to grant same-sex couples the right to religious wedding ceremonies.
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Sweden passes new gay marriage law
Society: 2 Apr 09
Sweden's parliament passed new legislation by a wide majority on Wednesday that will allow homosexuals to marry in church and civil weddings.
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Most Swedish pastors willing to wed gay couples
Society: 23 Jan 09
Nearly seven in ten pastors in the Church of Sweden are open to performing marriage ceremonies for gay couples in churches.
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Sweden to allow gay marriage in May
Society: 21 Jan 09
Three of the parties in the four-party governing coalition have tabled a motion that is expected to pave the way for gay marriage in Sweden from May 1st this year.
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Left Party: 'force pastors to perform gay weddings'
Politics: 11 Nov 08
As Sweden moves closer to a same-sex marriage law, Left Party leader Lars Ohly wants to include a provision to force pastors to wed gay couples.
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Government rules out gay marriage compromise
Politics: 25 Oct 08
The Moderates, Liberal party (Folkpartiet) and Centre party have rejected calls from the Christian Democrats for a compromise over gay marriage in the face of a threatened revolt by government MPs.
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High court to rule on gay marriage dispute
National: 10 May 08
A homosexual couple has taken the Swedish tax authorities to the Supreme Administrative Court for registering their marriage in Canada as a partnership.
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Swedes support gay marriage
National: 21 Jan 08
A large majority of Swedes are in favour of allowing gays to marry.
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Opposition could force through gay marriage bill
Politics: 15 Jan 08
A lesbian couple celebrates the first symbolic gay marriage in Hungary. But Sweden's parliament is keen to go a step further.
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Church of Sweden approves gay marriage law
Politics: 12 Dec 07
The Church of Sweden has said it approves of moves towards gay marriage, but wants to reserve the word 'marriage' for straight couples.
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Moderates back gay marriage
Politics: 27 Oct 07
Sweden's Moderate Party gave its backing to gender-neutral marriages on Saturday, leaving the Christian Democrats as the only parliamentary party against gay marriage.
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Reinfeldt: public services go before tax cuts
Politics: 25 Oct 07
Public services and welfare are a higher priority than further tax cuts, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has told members of his Moderate Party as he opened its annual conference in Gävle.
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Church of Sweden split over gay marriage
National: 25 Oct 07
Church of Sweden delegates have voted to retain the right to carry out legally binding weddings. But not everybody is happy with the prospect of a new gender-neutral marriage law.
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Gay marriage and defence in focus at Moderate conference
Politics: 25 Oct 07
Fredrik Reinfeldt's Moderate Party starts its annual conference on Thursday with a mountain to climb if it is to recover the poll rating it enjoyed when it was elected just over a year ago.
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Opposition demands gay marriage
Politics: 5 Oct 07
The three opposition parties are piling pressure on the government to table a bill establishing gender-neutral marriage. They are demanding gay marriage is legalized by March.
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Church weddings for gays soon a reality in Sweden
Lifestyle: 6 Jul 07
Sweden may be on its way to becoming the first country in the world to allow gays to marry within a major church, writes Delphine Touitou.
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Moderate board comes out for gay marriage
Politics: 16 Jun 07
The Moderate Party, the largest party in Sweden's coalition government, has thrown its support behind same-sex marriage. The party's board voted in favour of a gender-neutral marriage law on Friday.
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Moderates call for gay marriage
Politics: 10 Jun 07
A number of MPs belonging to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's Moderate Party have vowed to rebel if the party does not come out in support of gay marriage.
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Inquiry gives green light to gay marriage
Society: 21 Mar 07
An official inquiry has proposed that Sweden allow same-sex couples to marry on the same terms as heterosexuals. As well as protests from religious groups, gay campaigners are angry that priests would still be allowed to refuse to officiate at gay weddings.
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Swedish bishops say yes to gay church weddings
National: 16 Mar 07
The Church of Sweden's leaders have said that they are ready to become the first major world denomination to allow gay people to marry in church on the same basis as heterosexual couples.
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Church of Sweden gives gay couples church blessing
National: 6 Dec 06
After much pondering the Church of Sweden has finally decided to give its blessing in church to homosexual couples.
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Gays could be granted church weddings
National: 25 Aug 06
Churches will be allowed to marry gay couples if the government follows proposals contained in a report due to be presented next year. Priests themselves will be able to choose whether to preside over gay marriages.
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Gay ducks out in Sweden
National: 7 Apr 06
In the middle of mating season, a couple of male ducks returned to a park in southern Sweden, for the third consecutive year, ignoring the siren calls of all the lady ducks around them.
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Sibling rivalry in fight for Swedish Church
National: 26 Jan 06
The brother and sister of the leader of the Church of Sweden, Archbishop K.G. Hammar, are competing to succeed him. The time is not ripe for a woman Archbishop, says the brother.
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Swedish Church approves gay blessings
Society: 27 Oct 05
Following a resounding yes-vote by the Church Assembly, the highest body of authority in the Swedish Church, gay couples will be able to have their partnerships blessed in the country's churches.
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Government to investigate gay marriage
Society: 31 Jan 05
The government has agreed to investigate the possibility of allowing same-sex couples to marry - but won't be including representatives of gay groups in the study.
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6 out of 10 Swedes back gay church marriage
Society: 15 Sep 04
Nothing brings people together quite like a wedding. Unless, of course, it happens to be between people of the same sex - in which case there's apparently nothing more divisive.
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20 things to know before moving to Sweden
As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
How far can English take you in Sweden?
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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