After watching television images of gay marriages in San Francisco, the 81-year-old monarch has decided that single sex weddings should be allowed in Cambodia too.Those televised images are powerful.
He expressed his views in a hand written message on his website which has proved extremely popular in Cambodia.
The king said that as a "liberal democracy", Cambodia should allow "marriage between man and man... or between woman and woman."
He said he had respect for homosexual and lesbians and said they were as they were because God loved a "wide range of tastes."
February 20, 2004
Gay marriage in .... Cambodia! King Norodom Sihanouk has an opinion, according to BBC news:
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