Äktenskap för par med samma kön Vigselfrågor - Regeringen

Summary
The Assignment
As a special commissioner, assisted by two reference groups, I have
been appointed to review a number of issues relating to marriage
and registered partnership and to propose such amendments to the
legislation as may be considered necessary. One of the reference
groups comprises representatives of the Riksdag (Swedish Parliament)
parties and the other represents religious communities.
One of my main tasks was to report on all of the reasons for or
against allowing couples of the same sex to enter into marriage, to
conduct a thorough analysis of these reasons, and then to adopt a
position on whether marriage as hitherto should be reserved for a
relationship between a man and a woman or whether it should also
be opened up for couples of the same sex. The assignment also
included reporting on which international private and procedural
law issues marriage for couples of the same sex raises and
deliberating on whether these call for any special regulation.
Another main task was – regardless of my conclusions regarding
the issue of marriage for couples of the same sex – to adopt a
position on the formalities for entering into marriage. In this part,
the assignment included investigating the issue of whether those
who wished to get married should also in future be able to choose
between a marriage ceremony conducted within a religious
community and a civil marriage ceremony or whether a marriage
should only be allowed to be concluded by a civil procedure. Subject
to the precondition that the current arrangement should be retained,
another requirement was to adopt a position on whether amendments
should be made as regards the powers of religious communities
to represent the public when officiating at weddings. I was also
assigned the task of investigating the formalities of marriage by a
civil procedure.
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