{"id":5746,"date":"2016-10-02T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T10:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=5746"},"modified":"2016-10-02T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T10:28:09","slug":"the-most-powerful-speech-on-lgbt-rights-immigration-and-tolerance-youll-hear-all-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/the-most-powerful-speech-on-lgbt-rights-immigration-and-tolerance-youll-hear-all-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The most powerful speech on LGBT rights, immigration and tolerance you&#8217;ll hear all year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joe Myers\/Pahichan &#8211;\u00a0King Harald of Norway has delighted Norwegians \u2013 and the world \u2013 with a passionate speech in support of LGBT rights, religious tolerance and refugees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>In a five-minute monologue at a royal garden party, the 79-year-old King made an emotional appeal for acceptance and inclusiveness that has since gone viral and been shared far beyond Norway&#8217;s borders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>\u201cNorway is above all people,\u201d he said. From Sweden, to Afghanistan and Somalia, Norwegians come from around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--video\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zvB0jZKRKrk?wmode=transparent\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><b>Tolerance and acceptance<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>King Harald, who has spent 25 years on the throne, gave his backing to gay rights, saying: \u201cNorwegians are girls who love girls, boys who love boys, and girls and boys who love each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Religious diversity also featured in his speech. Norwegians believe \u201cin God, in Allah, in everything and in nothing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Drawing on the words of the national anthem \u2013 \u201cYes, we love this country\u201d \u2013 he said Norwegians also sang about each other, calling for solidarity and unity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><b>\u2018Home is where the heart is\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>King Harald reminded listeners that his own grandparents arrived in Norway from England and Denmark 110 years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not always easy to say where we come from,\u201d he said. \u201cTo which nationality we belong. Home is where the heart is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>We can\u2019t always place this within the boundaries of national borders, he argued. Norwegians aren&#8217;t just from Norway, but from \u201cAfghanistan, Pakistan and Poland, from Sweden, Somalia and Syria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"st__content-block st__content-block--text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, the monarch said he hoped that Norwegians will feel that, &#8220;we &#8211; despite our differences \u2013 are one people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Copy :\u00a0https:\/\/www.weforum.org<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Myers\/Pahichan &#8211;\u00a0King Harald of Norway has delighted Norwegians \u2013 and the world \u2013 with a passionate speech in support of LGBT rights, religious tolerance and refugees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,492,490,11],"tags":[524,1133],"class_list":["post-5746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-opinion","category-slider","category-world","tag-lgbt","tag-norway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5748,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions\/5748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}