Where Europe stands on gay marriage and civil unns | Pew Rearch Center

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• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS PRITS NNOT BLS SAME-SEX UNNS, DASHG HOP OF GAY CATHOLICS

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

More than 18 years after the Netherlands beme the world’s first untry to legalize same-sex marriage, Northern Ireland has bee the latt European jurisdictn to allow gays and lbians to marry.

Image source, RtersImage ptn, Pope Francis' statements are a parture om prev ments about LGBT rightsPope Francis has said that he thks same-sex upl should be allowed to have "civil unns" ma the ments, which observers say are his cleart remarks yet on gay relatnships, a documentary directed by Evgeny Afeevsky.

" He add that he "stood up for that", apparently referrg to his time as Archbishop of Buenos Air when, although opposg same-sex marriag law, he supported some legal protectns for same-sex film Franc, about the life and work of Pope Francis, premiered as part of the Rome Film well as the Pope's ments on civil unns, the film also shows him enuragg two gay men to attend church wh their three Francis's bgrapher, Aten Ivereigh, told the BBC he was "not surprised" by the latt ments.

POPE FRANCIS SAYS PRITS NNOT BLS SAME-SEX UNNS, DASHG HOP OF GAY CATHOLICS

"Unr current Catholic doctre, gay relatnships are referred to as "viant behavur" 2003, the Vatin's doctral body, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, said that "rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavur or to legal regnn of homosexual unns" words but no sign of doctral changeThe remarks have set tongu waggg among Vatin-watchers - and they mark Francis's cleart support for the issue sce beg Pope.

As archbishop of Buenos Air before beg Pope, he was a stnch opponent of gay marriage, which was legalised Argenta 2010, and stead advoted civil unns for homosexual upl.

Every person needs a male father and a female mother that n help them shape their inty" ptn, "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge? " he 2014 was reported that Pope Francis had exprsed support for civil unns for same-sex partners an terview, but the Holy See's prs office nied 2018, Pope Francis said he was "worried" about homosexualy the clergy, and that was "a ser matter" on this story. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTVatin Clarifi Pope Francis’s Comments on Same-Sex UnnsThe Vatin said the pope’s statements favor of civil unns for gay upl did not change church Bia/Associated PrsPublished Nov.

2, 2020Updated June 27, 2021ROME — The Vatin has nfirmed the pope’s remarks on gay upl servg civil protectns as sent an explanatory note to bishops unrlg that Francis’s ments did not mark a change church pope’s remarks ma headl last month after they appeared the documentary “Franc, ” at s Oct. Argenta was the first untry Lat Ameri to legalize same-sex the Televisa terview, the rrponnt Valenta Alazraki asked the pope whether his posn on gay marriage had softened upon beg pope.

Afeevsky the Vatin note said that durg the Televisa terview, speakg of the ntroversy Argenta, Francis had argued for the right of gay upl to have legal Vatin note also poted to a 2014 terview which the pope had reerated that “marriage is between a man and a woman” but that secular stat uld seek to “jtify civil unns to regulate var suatns of existence, driven by the mand to regulate enomic aspects among people, such as ensurg health re.

A 2003 document issued by the Congregatn of the Doctre of the Fah says that the church’s “rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavr or to legal regnn of homosexual unns. “Legal regnn of homosexual unns or placg them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of viant behavr, wh the nsequence of makg a mol prent-day society, but would also obscure basic valu which belong to the mon herance of humany, ” the document said.

The strongt disagreements seem to crystallise around the notn of “marriage, ” but the arguments around the regnn of same-sex upl often reveal eply rooted homophobia and discrimatn agast lbians and gay people. In my recent viss to San Maro, Slovakia and Latvia, I met wh lbian and gay activists who gave me vivid exampl of the specific problems engenred by the absence of legal regnn of same-sex stable relatnships.

In 2000, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) issued s Remendatn 1474 on the suatn of lbians and gays the Council of Europe, remendg that the Commtee of Misters ll upon member stat to “adopt legislatn makg provisn for registered partnerships. Sce the first same-sex marriag took place the Netherlands 2001, more than 30 other jurisdictns have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry, mostly Europe and the Ameris.

Netherlands2001EuropeFirst untry to legalize same-sex marriage after Parliament passed the law December Zealand 2013Asia-PacificFirst untry the Asia-Pacific regn to allow gays and lbians to 2009EuropeThe law replaced a 1993 statute permtg civil unns. Slovenia 2022EuropeFirst untry formerly munist Eastern Europe to legalize same-sex Ai 2006Sub-Saharan AiOnly Ain untry where same-sex marriage is legal; several untri on the ntent have passed laws that ban homosexualy recent 2005EuropeBeme the third untry globally to legalize same-sex marriage after a vote s closely divid 2009EuropeGay and lbian upl Swen prevly had been allowed to register for civil unns sce 1995. 1%) st ballots favor of legalizg same-sex marriage a 2021 2019Asia-PacificA urt lg prompted a change the law that ma Taiwan the first jurisdictn Asia to perm gays and lbians to Kgdom 2014EuropeLegal same-sex marriage took effect Northern Ireland 2020, six years after the change England and Wal.

Consirg the data g om the European Value Survey (the latt available for Italy), the Catholic posn on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr (LGBT) people seems to be wily shared among Italians. 3% of the rponnts believed that gay men and lbian women were discrimated the untry (acrdg to the 2012 Eurobarometer the same percentage for the whole European Unn is equal to 46%). Acrdgly, Piumatti (2017) showed that the existence of genr role beliefs may further exacerbate the lk between religsy and negative attu towards LGBT people (see also Santona and Tognasso 2018) addn, g an Italian sample of 120 lbian women and 170 gay men, Sndurra et al.

As such, given that jog a civil unn do not entle same-sex upl to accs to parenthood, this choice may hold ls appeal for lbian women whose sire to bee parents is higher than that of gay men.