Malta legaliz gay civil unns, adoptn | ABS-CBN News

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.

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

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. Anythg ls is pure equaly based on homophobia.

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

In some untri gay dividuals n adopt as sgle parents, but gay upl n’t.

MALTA LEGALIS GAY PARTNERSHIPS AND ADOPTN

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.

80% OF MALTE CIZENS OPPOSE ERNMENT PH FOR GAY ADOPTN

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. Christian, Jewish and Islamic lears have all spoken out agast gay marriage.

MALTA LEGALIZ GAY CIVIL UNNS, ADOPTN

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.