Germany's parliament backed the legalizatn of same-sex marriage on Friday a historic vote hailed by gay activists and leftist parti but cricized by some Chancellor Angela Merkel's lg nservative bloc and by the Catholic Church.
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Germany now jos 22 other untri around the world where gay marriage is already a right, cludg South Ai (the only untry on the Ain ntent), France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spa and Argenta. The announcement me rather swiftly as far as German ernment cisn-makg normally go, after Chancellor Angela Merkel eased her own party’s opposn to gay unn, askg lawmakers to e to a cisn aligned wh their own good nscience.
If gay marriage is cid, then many will receive somethg, but nobody will have somethg taken away”. Kermer and sr of other gay and lbian Germans to celebrate the streets. “If gay marriage is cid, then many will receive somethg, but nobody will have somethg taken away.
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Merkel Hochre, a board member of the Lbian and Gay Feratn Germany who attend the parliamentary bate, said of Ms. Volker Beck, a Green Party legislator and longtime mpaigner for gay rights, is retirg, and he was close to tears as he spoke to reporters after the upl Germany have been able to form civil unns sce 2001, and opn polls have shown for years that most Germans favor legalizg same-sex marriage. ”Gay rights groups scribed the oute on Friday as a turng pot.
“It’s very posive for the self-teem of gays and lbians; ’s very important for people g out, knowg that they have this equaly; and sends a clear msage to any homophobic refuge g to Germany: We have equaly here, ” said Arnd Bächler, a unselor and addictn therapist at Berl’s gay unselg center. Approval of same-sex marriage Germany uld build momentum for siar legislatn other German-speakg untri, like Atria and Swzerland, said Katr Hugendubel, advocy director of ILGA-Europe, a gay and transgenr rights group. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 6 of the New York edn wh the headle: Marriage For Gays Advanc In Germany.
The German Constutn of 1919 clud Article 175, which outlawed homosexual behavr between men.