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Outrage in Denmark After Priest Refuses to Bury Lesbian

Outrage in Denmark After Priest Refuses to Bury Lesbian

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The priest's actions did not go over well in liberal Denmark.

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A Danish priest says he erred when he refused to bury an elderly woman after discovering she was gay.

The deceased's daughter was infuriated, saying the priest refused the funeral in front of her mother's octagenarian partner. The older women had been together for decades, and in a domestic partnership for nearly 30 years.

"I thought, can it really be true that we should be ashamed of it?," the deceased woman's daughter, Kirsten Ostergaard, told homotropolis.com. "I looked at my mother's life partner and she was completely silent -- and then I became really upset on her behalf. It's a terrible situation to put her in."

After Ostergaard complained, the priest apologized, though many people in the liberal Scandinavian nation remain outraged, while a professor called the priest's actions "unlawful."

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Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.
Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.