Xavier Bettel, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg (pictured right), will wed his gay partner, Belgian architect, Gauthier Destenay (left) today May 15th at a very private ceremony in Luxembourg. This will make him the first European Union leader to enter into a same-sex marriage and the second world leader to enter into a same sex marriage after Iceland’s prime minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, who married her writer partner in 2010. Bettel has been in a partnership with his partner since March 2010 and got engaged in August 2014.
Bettel who became Prime Minister in December 2013, told Belgium’s RTBF public television that he was getting married because he wants to accept his segxwality and avoid been unhappy all his life. “I could have hidden it or repressed it and been unhappy my whole life. I could have had relations with someone of the other sex while having homosegxwal relations in secret. But I told myself that if you want to be a politician be honest in politics, you have to be honest with yourself and to accept that you are who you are.” The low-key ceremony at the town hall in Luxembourg is being deliberately kept out off the media spotlight and will be followed by weekend-long private celebrations for around 500 guests.
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Posted: at 15-05-2015 02:10 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
freethinker at 15-05-2015 02:23 PM (9 years ago) (m)
WHAT IS THIS WORLD TURNING INTO? ANYWAY IT IS VERY COMMON IN WESTERN WORLD
Posted: at 15-05-2015 02:23 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
all these things has been happening for a very long time, even homosegxwals are in the bible. it is the internet that makes the world smaller and allows us to hear news that happened very far away from us in an instant. I am not gay. but I have nothing against them. I believe God will do the judging, not us. Lets not use our own criteria to describe other ppl who are not even the same race as us. to eat dog is perfectly normal here but an american will look at you like you are barbaric.. who is wrong who is right?
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Posted: at 15-05-2015 02:37 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
all these things has been happening for a very long time, even homosegxwals are in the bible. it is the internet that makes the world smaller and allows us to hear news that happened very far away from us in an instant. I am not gay. but I have nothing against them. I believe God will do the judging, not us. Lets not use our own criteria to describe other ppl who are not even the same race as us. to eat dog is perfectly normal here but an american will look at you like you are barbaric.. who is wrong who is right? to eat dog is NOT perfectly normal here
Posted: at 15-05-2015 05:46 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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