Angela Merkel Opens Way for Vote on Gay Marriage Germany - WSJ

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• ANGELA MERKEL SIGNALS CHANGE STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE GERMANY
• GERMANY'S MERKEL VOTED AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• SAME SEX MARRIAGE: WHY LIBERAL GERMANY TOOK SO LONG TO GIVE GAY COUPL EQUAL RIGHTS
• WHAT ANGELA MERKEL’S SHIFT ON GAY MARRIAGE REVEALS ABOUT HER STYLE
• IN A NOD TO ANGELA MERKEL’S POLIL GENI, GERMANY VOT “Y” TO GAY MARRIAGE
• ANGELA MERKEL OPENS WAY FOR VOTE ON GAY MARRIAGE GERMANY
• MERKEL PRS PUT OVER ANTI-GAY PURGE CHECHNYA
• IN A NOD TO ANGELA MERKEL’S POLIL GENI, GERMANY VOT “Y” TO GAY MARRIAGE
• ANGELA MERKEL: 'DENY MARRIAGE TO GAY COUPL'
• GAY RIGHTS EMERGE AS CAMPAIGN ISSUE GERMANY

ANGELA MERKEL SIGNALS CHANGE STANCE ON GAY MARRIAGE GERMANY

Germany has had a number of popular gay lears the last , cludg former Berl Mayor Kls Wowere om the center-left Social Democrats and former Hamburg Mayor Ole von Bst om Merkel’s nservativ. Angela Merkel has signalled a change her party’s opposn to gay marriage after statg MPs should be allowed a ee vote the German parliament.

GERMANY'S MERKEL VOTED AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

Speakg at an event anised by the magaze Brigte, the German chancellor said she felt aggrieved that bate was maly rried out along party l and that she hoped would be “head towards a nscience vote” is wily believed the Bunstag would legalise gay marriage a ee vote on the issue. Civil partnerships have been allowed sce 2001, but Merkel’s Christian Democratic Unn has risted lls to open up marriage to same-sex centre-right CDU, which has been erng as senr partner a aln wh the centre-left SPD sce 2013, has said prefers to amend legislatn so upl a civil partnership have the same tax stat and adoptn rights as married ls than three months before feral electns, Merkel’s ments uld take the wd out of her crics’ sails and open her party up to the wist possible range of post-electn Social Democrats, the German Greens and the rurgent liberal Free Democratic party have all signalled they would make possible CDU opposn to gay marriage a red le aln talks.

Then the chancellor said she had “difficulti” wh givg gay and lbian upl the right to adopt, admtg that this might seem old-fashned. BERLIN (Rters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday she voted agast legalizg gay marriage given her personal view that marriage should be between a man and a woman, but she hoped parliament’s approval of the measure would lead to more social hn. It was only this Friday morng, over 15 years later, when Germany's parliament fally voted favor of allowg gay upl to wed by 393 vot to terveng years, Staeglich says, were tratg: "It turned out [that] there are no reasons to be proud about Germany and the German ernment bee all the untri around [] changed a lot [but] Germany stood on the same place.

"The fact that took so long for relatively tolerant Germany—where 83 percent of Germans back gay marriage, acrdg to a recent poll—to equalize s marriage laws is a large part down to polics.

SAME SEX MARRIAGE: WHY LIBERAL GERMANY TOOK SO LONG TO GIVE GAY COUPL EQUAL RIGHTS

In 2005 she said an terview: "man and wife, marriage and fay, stand at the centre of our social mol, so other liftyl should not receive parable nstutnal protectns, " acrdg to The Friday's vote, where lawmakers were allowed to vote wh their nscience rather than along party l, the Chancellor herself opposed the Spahn, Germany's Deputy Fance Mister, himself a gay man and a proponent of gay marriage wh the CDU, adms an terview before the vote that his party is still g to terms wh the issue, and that many wh still oppose Welt reported that at least 70 of the lawmakers reprentg the CDU and s smaller sister party the CSU, roughly a quarter of the total, backed the change.

WHAT ANGELA MERKEL’S SHIFT ON GAY MARRIAGE REVEALS ABOUT HER STYLE

"Merkel said on Monday that she had begun to change her md on the issue of gay marriage after an vatn to dner her nstuency at the home of two gay women who were rg for eight foster children. But the move was read Germany as pre-electn rival parti and potential aln partners, the SPD and the centrist Free Democrats (FDP), both back the change, and by allowg a vote whout a party whip Merkel uld ntralize the policy as an issue for the general electn whout havg to fight her party's more hardle nservative, though, quot Brish Conservative ex-Prime Mister David Cameron, who once said: "I don't support gay marriage spe beg a Conservative. I support gay marriage bee I'm a Conservative.

"If you go to the untrysi beg a lbian girl or a gay boy a small village, " says Staeglich, " is still not that easy to ll themselv a gay person, or a queer person. And there are differenc the perceptn of homosexualy between men, which was crimalized East Germany 1968 and the Wt 1969, but still partly crimalized until 1994 (when the age of nsent was equalized), and between women, which was never technilly illegal.

Staeglich hop that gay people beg able to marry like anyone else will change the mds of some tradnalists: "From that pot on you n jt argue and say: 'Well, hello?

IN A NOD TO ANGELA MERKEL’S POLIL GENI, GERMANY VOT “Y” TO GAY MARRIAGE

And to give further e for hope, even the hard-right populist Alternative for Germany party, which oppos gay marriage, elected a gay woman as s lear elsewhere, there are many battl still to fight for Germany's LGBT muny, but the shifts are palpable and asi om all of that, one choice remas for gay people Germany: Now they have the right, will they take the plunge and pop the qutn?

ANGELA MERKEL OPENS WAY FOR VOTE ON GAY MARRIAGE GERMANY

The next day her Social Democrat (SPD) aln partners picked up on the ment, broke wh the CDU and lled a parliamentary vote on gay marriage wh the socialist Left party and the Greens. Likewise, the chancellor firmly led out gay marriage when most Germans were opposed, but the latt YouGov poll puts support for at 66% (and for gay adoptn at 57%).

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After long opposg gay marriage, Merkel lled a vote on the matter, unr prsure om her rivals. Her ma rival, Social Democrat Mart Schulz, has champned gay marriage as a central mpaign issue (paywall) and ed to block her chanc of formg a aln as chancellor if she ws, by refg to enter any ernment that do not troduce gay marriage. Reversg her stance threatened to alienate some of her re nservative base, and drive them further to the right, toward the Alternative for Dtschland party (the only party to oppose same-sex marriage) Merkel also knew public opn had signifintly shifted, (73% of her nservative supporters now back gay marriage), so she cid to play both ways.

MERKEL PRS PUT OVER ANTI-GAY PURGE CHECHNYA

The amendment legaliz gay marriage and, after the vote, she neatly squared her own opn wh the natnal mood. Germany jos a host of European untri, cludg France, the UK, Swen, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spa, that now regnize gay marriage. ” At home Germany, not everyone was equally seemgly nsequential vote enpsulat some of the opposg forc tuggg at Merkel, said Robert Beachy, the thor of “Gay Berl: Birthplace of a Morn Inty.

As of 2021 the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn (ILGA) also ranked Germany 12th of the EU untri their Rabow Europe rankg of LGBTI rights. REUTERS/Marton Mon/File PhotoBERLIN, June 23 (Rters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednday cricised Hungary's planned new law to ban the dissematn of materials schools on homosexualy and genr change.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told lawmakers that a Hungarian law that will ban sharg LGBT or sex reassignment ntent wh children "is wrong" and "patible" wh her polil ials, the Associated Prs said any actn agast the bill was up to the European Commissn to iate, "but any se draws clear cricism om you allow homosexual, same-sex partnerships but rtrict rmatn about them elsewhere, that also has to do wh eedom of tn and the like, " she is one of a few European Unn lears who have cricized the bill. Angela Merkel has urged Vladimir Put to vtigate reports of the torture and persecutn of gay men Chechnya and to ensure the safety of LGBT people across the German chancellor, makg her first vis to Rsia for two years, a trip scribed by her officials as bridge-buildg missn, said she had raised the issue wh the Rsian print along wh other human rights ncerns. A vlent crackdown on gay people Chechnya was first reported the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which has alleged that more than 100 Chechen men spected of beg gay have been round up and at least three killed.

IN A NOD TO ANGELA MERKEL’S POLIL GENI, GERMANY VOT “Y” TO GAY MARRIAGE

The Guardian has penntly spoken to gay Chechen men who gave acunts of beatgs and torture the ultra-nservative, predomantly Mlim southern Rsian Kreml has supported the Chechen lear Ramzan Kadyrov’s nials of an anti-gay purge, argug that has no rmatn to back rearch rried out by journalists and human rights a jot prs nference wh Put at his summer retreat Sochi on the Black Sea ast, Merkel said she had received “negative reports on the way that homosexuals are alt wh, particularly Chechnya”.

ANGELA MERKEL: 'DENY MARRIAGE TO GAY COUPL'

Wtern ernments and human rights groups have lled on Rsian thori to vtigate the reports of reprsn Chechnya, where society is strictly nservative even by Rsia also raised ncerns over rtrictns on the eedom of assembly Rsia, followg the arrt by rt police of people monstratg agast the anti-gay mpaign. REUTERS/Marton Mon/File Photo Acquire Licensg RightsBERLIN, June 23 (Rters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednday cricised Hungary's planned new law to ban the dissematn of materials schools on homosexualy and genr change. Angela Merkel revealed on Tuday that while she thks same-sex upl should be entled to maral benefs, they should not themselv be allowed to German Chancellor said that although she favoured measur to curb discrimatn agast same-sex upl, and that the se of LGBTQ+ rights had been advanced greatly, she did not thk that marriage licens should be offered to homosexual upl.

GAY RIGHTS EMERGE AS CAMPAIGN ISSUE GERMANY

“We have e a long way; when I remember, 25 years ago, many people didn’t dare to say that they are gay or lbian. At a jot prs nference on Tuday, German chancellor Angela Merkel raised ncerns over the Rsian stance on gay people.