Swedes support gay marriage

Almost 75 per cent of people from Sweden would like to see same sex marriage made legal in the country.

That is according to a new poll conducted by the Sifo Institute, which found that 71 per cent of the 1,000 people questioned said that gay people should be allowed to wed.

The survey was published yesterday (January 20th) by the Svenska Dagbladet daily newspaper.

Gay and lesbian couples have been granted the right to enter into civil unions in Sweden since 1995. They are given the same legal status as married heterosexual couples, but various gay and lesbian organisations are campaigning to have the law changed so that marriage is no longer defined as being between a man and a woman.

Speaking to the Agence France Presse about the findings, Soeren Juvas, head of the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights, said "this survey shows that a large majority of Swedes feel homosexual couples should be treated on an equal footing" with heterosexuals.

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