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

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• GERMANY GAY MARRIAGE: COUPLE ARE FIRST TO MARRY UNR NEW LAW
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

GERMANY GAY MARRIAGE: COUPLE ARE FIRST TO MARRY UNR NEW LAW

Image source, EPAImage ptn, Karl Kreile (left) and Bodo Men, om Berl, have been together for 38 yearsTwo men have bee the first gay uple to marry Germany, on the day gay marriage beme legal Kreile and Bodo Men, a uple for 38 years, exchanged their vows at the town hall Schöneberg, Berl. Gettg married will give gay upl the same tax advantag and adoptn rights as heterosexual upl.

Germany regnized same-sex relatnships 2001, grantg upl greater rights on herance, tax and other benefs, and legalized same-sex marriage 2017 spe stiff opposn om nservative policians and the Catholic ma possible for gay people to adopt Germany, where only married upl are eligible.

”‘LOVING HOMES’The issue is not unique to Germany - many untri that have equal marriage laws ban the e of paid surrogat, meang gay men who want to have a fay are often reliant on and more are extendg adoptn rights to same-sex upl, the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) said s latt annual adoptn is permted across the Uned Stat, although laws some stat make more difficult, and both France and Bra also allow adoptn by same-sex Germany, one alternative is long-term fosterg, which n eventually lead to adoptn - as the se of Michael and Kai Korok, who were among the first same-sex upl to marry 2017 and adopted their 2-year-old foster son shortly tumn, Franis Dupont and his hband Frank along wh their two foster children found themselv the natnal media spotlight the first anniversary of the passg of the marriage equaly law, they were st as the ial gay nuclear Dupont said nservative attus persisted among officials.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

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Hundreds of upl across Germany shed to exchange vows and rgs on Sunday as the untry’s new law legalizg same-sex marriage went to across the untry opened their marriage registry offic on Sunday, outsi of normal bs hours, to allow for the marriag to take place, acrdg to the stat of beg legally married will allow gay upl the same treatment — cludg tax advantag and adoptn rights — unr German law that straight upl currently More: India’s Supreme Court Rul Sexual Orientatn Is a Protected RightThe vote to legalize marriage happened June, shortly after Chancellor Angela Merkel announced she was no longer opposed to the untry havg a vote on the issue, the BBC law will affect an timated 94, 000 upl, acrdg to the German news webse The Lol.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR

Germany is the 15th European natn to legalize gay marriage — the Netherlands was the first, 2000. "Marriage for all is a tone on the path to full legal and social equaly, " Berl Mayor Michael Mueller said Friday, praisg those "who fought for many years" to get to this More: Gay Marriage Decisn Still Up the Air Atralia After Parliamentary Twists and TurnsIn Berl, Bodo Men, 60, and his partner of 38 years, Karl Kreile, 59, beme the first uple to marry Germany’s pal told the Associated Prs that he and Men had been mpaigng for marriage equaly for s and that was an "credible honor" to be the first same-sex uple to marry marriage be legal Germany for first time today. — Mike Sgton (@MikeSgton) October 1, 2017gay marriage is fally legal germany om today on!!

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Germany recently legalised gay marriage ❤️?????? ?. Dozens of upl were expected to exchange vows Berl, as well as Cologne, Hamburg, Hanover and Kiel on Sunday and the days Holland, a registrar Schöneberg, said, “We’re makg a sgle exceptn to fire a symbolic starter pistol bee same-sex marriag are possible om today, ” acrdg to The Associated Holland said was appropriate for the district to hold the first same-sex weddg the untry bee had long been a center of gay life the German Bimmer/Rters“Marriage equaly is a tone for a morn society, ” Heiko Maas, Germany’s jtice mister, wrote on Twter. 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.