American Bible-Thumper Travels To Scandinavia, Freaks Out After Discovering How Secular They Are

[TomVilmer]

98. Priests wrote parts of the Danish constitution - and accepted freedom

Also many priests were involved in writing the Danish constitution, but most did a good job considering the time. I have read most of their discussions, written in ancient Danish, and very worth browsing through. The idea for the new version of the state church was - since everybody anyway was Lutheran Christians - to make a church for the people by the people. Just as the State provided schools, libraries and hospitals, it should also supply the citizens for their ceremonial needs.

Every church has its own democratically elected caretakers, who chooses which priest they want to employ - under some guidance from the government's Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs. And even the priests in the group writing the constitution agreed, that if other churches than the Lutheran Christian Church evolved, they too could get support from the State.