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Contents:

• MALTA LEGALIZ GAY PARTNERSHIPS AND ADOPTN
• ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAST GAY ADOPTN
• MALTA BISHOP REPORTS POPE FRANCIS “SHOCKED” BY GAY ADOPTNS – WHAT’S REALLY GOG ON?
• MALTA'S PARADOX: A BEAN OF GAY RIGHTS THAT BANS ABORTN
• MALTA LEGALIS GAY PARTNERSHIPS AND ADOPTN
• 80% OF MALTE CIZENS OPPOSE ERNMENT PH FOR GAY ADOPTN
• MALTA LEGALIZ GAY CIVIL UNNS, ADOPTN

MALTA LEGALIZ GAY PARTNERSHIPS AND ADOPTN

A toddler named Ben will go down Malte history as beg the first child to be adopted by a gay uple.

While the Civil Unn law, which me to force 2015, awards gay upl the same rights and privileg as a married uple – cludg the right to adopt – the actual procs. VALLETTA (Rters) - The Malte parliament approved a law late on Monday to regnise same-sex partnerships on a legal par wh marriage, cludg allowg gay upl to law was greeted by wild celebratns by some 1, 000 people a square jt outsi parliament Valletta, the pal of the predomantly Roman Catholic Mederranean island where divorce was only legalized two years Prime Mister Joseph Mt, elected one year ago, said: “Malta is now more liberal and more European and has given equaly to all s people. ”The opposn Natnalist Party abstaed om the vote, sayg was favor of civil unns but had rervatns about gay adoptns.

Opposn lear Simon Buttil quoted a survey which found that 80 percent of the people were agast adoptns by gay upl. “Even though is lawful for a same-sex uple or a sgle gay person to adopt, the Malte ernment has no ntrol on the unwillgns of the sendg untry to send a child to a gay uple/sgle person, ” activist, rearcher and father of Ben, Kris Grima told Lov Malta.

ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAST GAY ADOPTN

AGAINST Gay Adoptn. Civilized societi do not discrimate on grounds of race, creed, genr or sexualy, yet the nial of equal rights to gay upl is clear discrimatn.

Gay and heterosexual upl serve the same legal rights to adopt.

MALTA BISHOP REPORTS POPE FRANCIS “SHOCKED” BY GAY ADOPTNS – WHAT’S REALLY GOG ON?

Anythg ls is pure equaly based on homophobia.

In some untri gay dividuals n adopt as sgle parents, but gay upl n’t. Gay adoptn is clearly an issue that is bt cid on a untry-by-untry basis, whout shg cizens more tradnal societi. There is ample evince to show that gay upl n be jt as good at parentg as straight upl.

In fact, some believe homosexual upl on average tend to be better motivated and more mted than heterosexual parents, bee they always chose to have children – unlike the around 50 percent of straight uple who stumble to parenthood by accint. Many gay upl form relatnships that are more stable than many heterosexual marriag givg adopted children a secure, emotnally stable home. Gay parentg ns fundamentally unter to many people’s relig views.

MALTA'S PARADOX: A BEAN OF GAY RIGHTS THAT BANS ABORTN

Christian, Jewish and Islamic lears have all spoken out agast gay marriage. Children adopted by gay upl weren’t snatched om happy hetero fai. The fay, gay or straight, is better than the alternativ.

Given the shortage of suable straight upl, gay adoptn n provi kids the lovg hom they need. There are now around 65, 000 children who have found hom thanks to gay adoptn legislatn the Uned Stat. Yet we have to rpect the mocratic cisn of people who vote for policians and ernments that oppose gay adoptn.

Children raised by gay upl may have different outlooks – surveys the US have shown they grow up more tolerant and open-md.

MALTA LEGALIS GAY PARTNERSHIPS AND ADOPTN

Liftg bans on gay marriage or gay adoptn are steps towards more diverse, more tolerant societi, where nobody fac discrimatn. “Now we’re on the right si of history, ” said Portugue gay rights mpaigner Isabel Advirta, after parliament approved the gay adoptn law December. It’s already happeng: Catholic agenci Bra and the Uned Stat have shut shop the wake of laws that would have obliged them to send children to gay upl.

Jo our bate “Should all EU stat regnise gay adoptn? ’ Scicluna scribed the pope as ‘que shocked by the issue of civil unns and gay adoptns.

80% OF MALTE CIZENS OPPOSE ERNMENT PH FOR GAY ADOPTN

“And so predictn #2 for 2014: we’re gog to see more and more adro (and downright cynil) attempts of the tert groups to seed the mastream media stori like the recent report by Bishop Charl Scicluna of Malta that Pope Francis is ‘shocked’ by the ia of gay adoptn of children.

The pot of the stori is not so much to rm that Francis abis by tradnal Catholic teachgs about homosexualy: ’s to unrcut Francis’s effect as a teacher the enomic arena by dividg those cled to wele his socenomic teachgs around issu of genr and sexual orientatn.

MALTA LEGALIZ GAY CIVIL UNNS, ADOPTN

Catholic bishops…When you hear Scicluna rm the media that Pope Francis is stalwartly anti-gay, thk Burke. Both larger parti claim to have placed gay rights at the centre of their mpaigns; but on closer scty turns out that all they’re really promisg is to keep thgs exactly as they are – loophol and all. "But an echo of the 2010 divorce referendum bate, Mt stopped short of mtg his party to a pro-gay adoptn policy platform.

Like the Labour lear, he also believ that the cisn of whether to allow a gay uple to adopt or not should be left to a panel of experts, who should ci on the basis of the child's bt terts. "Any such evaluatn by experts should be ee of any prejudice towards any sexual orientatn, " he add, what was wily terpreted as an acknowledgement that gay upl should be allowed to adopt children, at least if that is what the experts well and good...