Marriage in Luxembourg
The Herald reports:
Lawmakers in Luxembourg, whose prime minister is openly gay, has overwhelmingly approved changes in the small European nation’s legislation governing marriage that will allow people of the same sex to wed and to adopt children.
Sort of amusing that they have a gay PM before they have gay marriage. A country with a PM who couldn’t get married (well not to someone he is attracted to).
But that isn’t what I found most interesting:
Under the reform, Luxembourg’s legislators also fixed the legal age for marriage at 18 and dropped existing legal requirements for a pre-wedding medical exam, as well as the 300-day waiting period that had been imposed on widows or widowers before they could remarry.
They required a pre-wedding medical exam!! And had a waiting period for widows!
Other strange laws they had:
- Girls could marry at 16 but boys only at 18
- Only civil marriages are recognised
- The blood tests must be within 2 months of the marriage