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Contents:

• ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAST GAY ADOPTN
• EUROPE: GAY ADOPTN RULG ADVANC FAY EQUALY
• POLAND TO BAN GAYS OM ADOPTG, EVEN AS SGLE PARENTS
• GAY ADOPTN: HOW MON IS GAY ADOPTN AND IS LEGAL?
• ‘THEY ARE NOT HAPPY WH HOW WE LOVE EACH OTHER’: GAY PARENTS FEAR A MELONI VICTORY.
• PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT
• GERMANY STRENGTHENS GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS
• CAN GAY COUPL ADOPT? WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAST GAY ADOPTN

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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. Anythg ls is pure equaly based on homophobia.

EUROPE: GAY ADOPTN RULG ADVANC FAY EQUALY

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.

POLAND TO BAN GAYS OM ADOPTG, EVEN AS SGLE PARENTS

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. 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.

GAY ADOPTN: HOW MON IS GAY ADOPTN AND IS LEGAL?

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

‘THEY ARE NOT HAPPY WH HOW WE LOVE EACH OTHER’: GAY PARENTS FEAR A MELONI VICTORY.

“This groundbreakg lg means ernments n’t e sexual orientatn to stop someone om adoptg a child, ” said Stt Long, director of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Program at Human Rights Watch.

PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT

France, the European Court of Human Rights had led, four vot to three, that preventg a gay man om applyg to adopt a child bee of his sexual orientatn did not vlate the nventn. The urt has th tablished a precent that adoptn procr mt offer fair treatment not only to sgle parents, but to lbian and gay potential parents.

While many European stat – om Spa to Hungary – have opened eher full civil marriage or some form of civil-unn stat to same-sex partners, some rtrict lbians and gays om adoptg children eher dividually or as upl. Denmark, Germany, and Norway perm one lbian or gay partner to adopt the other’s children. Among others, Portugal and Italy keep gays and lbians om adoptg.

GERMANY STRENGTHENS GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS

Unr EU law, lbian, bisexual and gay people are currently protected om discrimatn on the ground of sexual orientatn only the field of employment. As of 2022, six untri' legal s specifilly prcribe the ath penalty for the "crime" of homosexualy and another five untri allow for the possibily of the ath penalty.

LGBT and LGBTQ+ have several addnal variatns, cludg LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA+, and 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, and asexual, wh the + reprentg pansexual, agenr, genr queer, bigenr, genr variant, and pangenr). Two of the most notable advancements LGBTQI+ rights the US recent s are the legalizatn of gay marriage and the legalizatn of adoptn of children by same-sex upl. Gay marriage legalizatn expand om one state 2004 to all fifty stat 2015 through feral urt lgs, state urt lgs, state legislatn, and direct popular vot.

Acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn's annual report State-Sponsored Homophobia, same-sex nduct was crimalized 67 of the Uned Natns' 193 member stat 2020 and was facto illegal two more.

CAN GAY COUPL ADOPT? WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

In other untri, homosexualy is technilly legal, but promotn of "nontradnal sexual relatns", whether by anizatns or dividuals, is illegal. Moreover, another five untri have laws which are ls specific the outlawg and sentencg of homosexualy, but which leave the ath penalty available. 2022's iendlit natn for LGBTQ+ travelers is Canada, the first untry outsi of Europe (and the fourth untry the world) to legalize gay marriage, which did on July 20, 2005.

Another of the world's most gay-iendly untri, Swen has legalized both marriage and adoptn for same-sex upl, stalled anti-discrimatn protectns for both genr inty and sexual orientatn, end nstutnal protectns agast discrimatn, and crimalized vlence agast LGBTQ+ people. Portugal beme the sixth European untry and the eighth untry the world to legalize gay marriage on May 17, 2010.

Addnally, gays, lbians, and bisexuals are all allowed to jo the Portugue ary. Belgium was the send untry the world to legalize gay marriage (after the Netherlands). Norway has legalized gay marriage and has worker protectns for both sexual orientatn and genr inty.

Addnally, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people may serve openly the Spanish Armed Forc.

On May 18, 2013, France beme the 13th untry to legalize gay marriage. Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals are allowed to serve openly the ary. In 2004, the Natnal Assembly approved an amendment to existg anti-discrimatn laws to clu homophobic ments as illegal.

Individuals arrted for homosexual nduct are often subjected to addnal mistreatment, om torture and forced anal exams by shady law enforcement officials to oversized sentenc or extend pre-trial rceratn that n last for years. In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti.

BRUSSELS/WARSAW (Rters) - People livg same-sex upl will be barred om adoptg children Poland even as sgle parents, unr a new law announced on Thursday by a natnalist lg party which has ma anti-gay polici a major part of s erng announcement is likely to tensify a clash between Poland and the European Unn over LGBT rights, which the EU says mt be rpected all member stat, but which Poland lls a threat to s Roman Catholic culture and a purely domtic Polish ernment announced s plan for the adoptn ban hours before lawmakers the European parliament adopted a major gay rights rolutn that was seen as a direct rebe to Warsaw’s recent already allows only oppose sex upl or sgle people to adopt children. ) people livg habatn wh a person of the same sex uld not adopt a child, so a homosexual uple will not be able to adopt a child, ” said Deputy Jtice Mister Michal said the purpose of the measure was to protect children: “It’s about a child’s safety, about s wellbeg, ” he said. Children serve a home, ” activist Bartosz Staszewski told ’s curbs on gay rights, which are beg mimicked nearby Hungary, are among several issu that have created ictn between the EU and right wg ernments power those two ex-munist member untri.

It clared all EU terrory to be an “LGBTIQ Freedom Zone”, a clear rebuttal to the “LGBT-ee” signatn ed ’s lg Law and Jtice Party (PiS) says gay rights are a threat to the tradnal liftyle one of the most Catholic untri Europe. Its crics say has turned to polics of bigotry to clg to power, particularly sce an electn last year, which PiS cumbent Print Andrzej Duda narrowly won wh an appeal to nservative voters that emphasised anti-gay msag.

SummaryPolls suggt right-wg parti will w Spa electnConservativ may form aln wh far-rightLGBTQ+ activists fear a roll back of their rightsMADRID, July 17 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - The rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people have taken centre stage ahead of Spa's July 23 natnal electn. What is gay adoptn? Gay adoptn is when a child is adopted by a parent or parents who intify as lbian, gay or bisexual.