Legislator Refuses to Dine with Iceland’s Lesbian Prime Minister and her "Wife"

Life Site News ^ | COPENHAGEN, September 10, 2010 | Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

[GonzoII]

Friday September 10, 2010

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Legislator Refuses to Dine with Iceland’s Lesbian Prime Minister and her "Wife"

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

COPENHAGEN, September 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The leader of a Faroe Islands political party took a stand in favor of sexual morality on Tuesday when he refused to dine with Iceland Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir and her lesbian partner during a state visit to his country.

Sigurdardóttir, who has lead Iceland since 2009, is a practicing lesbian who "married" her partner Jónina Leósdóttir in a highly publicized ceremony in June of this year. 

Calling the presence of Leósdóttir a "provocation," Member of Parliament Jenis av Rana refused to attend at dinner in honor of the prime minister.

"My party is formally against homosexual marriage," said av Rana. "If I were to participate in the official dinner, it would be the same as saying that I support a union that is contrary to nature and condemned by the Bible. And that is something I will not risk under any circumstances."

Although av Rana belongs to a more conservative Christian political party, his statement was echoed by Alfred Olsen, of the liberal Sambandsflokkurin party. “It is against nature for a man or a woman to live with a person of the same sex,” Olsen told the media.

The Faroe Islands are a semiautonomus territory of Denmark, which in 1989 was the first country in the world to create same-sex "civil unions."  However, such legal recognition for homosexual relationships is rejected by the more conservative islanders, who also prohibit homosexual adoption, according to the Irish Times.

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[GonzoII]

Good for ya, bud!!

[sit-rep]

any pics of that broad?? ...or her wife?

[tlb]

>>> “My party is formally against homosexual marriage,” said av Rana. “If I were to participate in the official dinner, it would be the same as saying that I support a union that is contrary to nature and condemned by the Bible.

We dealt with this issue years ago, when people would throw around the idiotic notion that the photo of Rumsfield shaking hands with Saddam constituted an endorsement. It didn’t. Diplomacy requires good manners.

This is just childish grandstanding. A state dinner is a matter of protocol and diplomacy, not morality. If Winston Churchill could dine with Stalin, this twit could break bread with the leader of a friendly democratic state and trading partner. The Faroes has been humiliated.

From the omission of detail, I infer his political party is not one of the more substantive ones. If he was somebody who mattered, the story would almost certainly drive this point home.

[GonzoII]

"This is just childish grandstanding."

What's wrong with the bully pulpit?

[Dick Vomer]

Should he have dinner with Roman Polanski? Everybody has a line that they feel they shouldn’t cross. Where we draw the line is an individuals choice. He feels that in good conscience he can’t break bread with the prime minister and it’s wife then I guess he will have to live with that choice. I am torn in a way.

I have coworkers who are lesbians and
date. One of their nieces plays volleyball on my daughters team and I am cordial to her and greet her in front of my children with a smile and with no animus. However I also told them that they are lesbians and that I think that they have a disordered life that is not in keeping with our beliefs that I do work with them and they are good workers and have never pushed their lifestyle choice onto us.

I suppose if you represent a country it must make your obligations and choices a lot more difficult.

[trebb]

This is just childish grandstanding

In a sane world, I would agree. In today's world, we see folks using any slightest opening to put a wedge in and to strat inferring what is not true. In this case, the man says he is anti homosexual marriage and nobody can construe it as anything else because he was principled enough to follow up with actions that support his words.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir of Iceland

I think she bears a strong resemblence to Bea Arthur.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Go lecture Obama on protocol. He’s the guy if you recall who disinvited Reverend Franklin Graham from the very Prayer Breakfast he was the Chairman of.

[Lee'sGhost]

I was going to say, couldn’t the guy go and just watch. But Bea Arthur?

Never mind.

[Adder]

BS
Then when do you make a principled stand?

When you are the last one?

[kearnyirish2]

Churchill abd Stalin had to use each other, and put a positive spin on the realtionship. This man sees no purpose to doing that; I don’t think he needs Iceland’s help to repel an invasion. I’m with him; they can legislate all they want, in the end it is an abomination and I will always be treated as such. My children have learned the same; we don’t question God’s word.

[onona]

Consider it a favor no one has posted them, ugh.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Churchill and Stalin weren’t allies. They just had a common enemy.

[Notwithstanding]

[kearnyirish2]

Absolutely; Churchill knew that Stalin was Hitler with a red star instead of a swastika (and Stalin proved him right). Britain officially went to war to defend Poland; one of Poland’s invaders (from the west) was defeated. The USSR, which invaded Poland from the east at the same time, kept the whole thing for 60 years. Britain and France never realized the gains for which their countries had gone to war.

[bert]

Drivel. One just does not associate with trash.

Iceland has become trashy like Massachusetts.

[sit-rep]

slightly wilted says I...

Thanks for the effort.

[DJ MacWoW]

The Faroes has been humiliated.

Only by honoring a mentally and sexually dysfunctional head of state. I would say Iceland resembles Sodom and we KNOW what happened to them.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“slightly wilted says I...”

Over ripe says I....

[tlb]

>>> Should he have dinner with Roman Polanski?

Is Polanski the leader of a friendly government? Obligations of protocol are the issue. The Stalin comparison was deliberate. No criminal in the last century was more evil, but protocol required civility. Those in governmental service such as Winston understood this, and were adult enough to do their duty regardless of how they may have disapproved of Stalin.. Which is more then can be said here.

>>> I suppose if you represent a country it must make your obligations and choices a lot more difficult.

Precisely.

>>> In a sane world, I would agree.

As if the world of diplomacy has ever been sane.

>>> Go lecture Obama on protocol

We do it all the time. He humiliates his country regularly too. Proud of him for so doing ?