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  Cambodian King Comments on Gay Marriages
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Last EditedGerald Farinas  Feb 20, 2004 03:18pm
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News DateFriday, February 20, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionCambodian King Comments on Gay Marriages

After watching TV images of gay weddings in San Francisco, Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk said Friday that homosexual couples should be allowed to get married.

Since the Cambodian government chose in 1993 to be a "liberal democracy," it should allow "marriage between man and man ... or between woman and woman," the king said in a signed statement in French posted on his Web site.

The king, currently on a medical visit to Beijing, also said that transvestites should be "accepted and well-treated in our national community."

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