Her Sexuality Is Of No Importance At All

Johanna Sigurdardottir, has been named as Iceland’s prime minister, and is the first openly lesbian head of government in Europe, if not the world – at least in modern times. The BBC is reporting that her sexuality is not important in Iceland as it is around the world. 

What is really historic about this new cabinet, says Skuli Helgeson, the general secretary of Ms Sigurardottir’s Social Democratic Alliance, is not the fact that its leader is a lesbian, but that for the first time in Icelandic history it boasts an equal number of men and women.”I don’t think her sexual orientation matters. Our voters are pretty liberal, they don’t care about any of that.” 

Her appointment is as an interim leader, until elections in May. Their previous cabinet had to resign due to Iceland’s financial system collapse in October under the weight of debt, leading to a currency crisis, rising unemployment and daily protests.

I just can’t help but imagine how the religious right would react to something like that here in the U.S.A. 

I am also wondering, why hasn’t Iceland blown up in a combustion of hell fire?