German urt expands adoptn rights of gay upl | Rters

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• GERMAN URT EXPANDS ADOPTN RIGHTS OF GAY UPL
• GERMAN URT EXPANDS ADOPTN RIGHTS OF GAY UPL
• GERMANY STRENGTHENS GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS
• GERMAN URT REJECTS SE TO ALLOW GAY ADOPTN ON TECHNILY
• GERMAN URT STRENGTHENS GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS
• GERMANY STRENGTHENS GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS

GERMAN URT EXPANDS ADOPTN RIGHTS OF GAY UPL

BERLIN (Rters) - Germany’s nstutnal urt hand same-sex upl a victory on Tuday by lg that gay people should be allowed to adopt a child already adopted by their partner. A gay uple hold hands durg their symbolic weddg ceremony central Rome May 21, 2005. “The excln of succsive adoptn by registered partners vlat the general prciple of equaly, ” said the urt, based Karlshe southwt ernment has until July 2014 to amend the law to rporate the lg, which appli to gay people civil German law, a gay person n already adopt the blogil children of his or her registered Germany homosexuals n form civil partnerships but are not allowed to marry.

Opposn parti and gay activists acce Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right ernment of draggg s feet on equaly for gay upl. Lawmaker Volker Beck of the opposn Greens said on Tuday the ernment was failg s rponsibili by leavg the nstutnal urt to tackle issu of gay equaly on a se-by-se basis.

“Gay men and lbians make jt as good parents as heterosexual men and women.

GERMAN URT EXPANDS ADOPTN RIGHTS OF GAY UPL

Thoands of children are growg up already ‘rabow’ fai, ” said Stephan Thomae and Michael Kch a jot a separate se, an Atrian lbian uple who want to jotly raise one partner’s blogil child won their se at the European Court for Human Rights, which led on Tuday that Atria’s adoptn laws discrimated agast gay people on that issue. ‘Dtsche Welle’ reports that German and European top urts have extend gay adoptn laws Germany, a further step towards equaly for homosexual upl.

‘Swissnfo’ reports that the Swiss parliament has voted to allow gay upl to adopt each other’s children. ‘Pravda’ reports that the legalizatn of gay marriage the UK and France rc the possibily for Brish and French fai to adopt children om Rsia, said Konstant Dol, the missner for human rights, mocracy and the le of….

Rters reported that same-sex upl nnot adopt children Poland, even as sgle parents, acrdg to a new law announced by a natnalist lg party which has ma anti-gay polici a major part of s erng platform.

GERMANY STRENGTHENS GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS

‘The Inquisr’ reports that Turkey wants children adopted by foreign gay upl and Christian upl returned to the untry.

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.

“But I thk gay upl should make an attempt. KARLSRUHE, Germany (Rters) - Germany’s Constutnal Court on Friday threw out a se to grant gay upl the right to jotly adopt a child on a technily, but gay rights activists noted that a lg by the same urt last Febary effectively allowed . Chancellor Angela Merkel and her nservativ have been acced of draggg their feet over gay rights - leavg to judg of the Constutnal Court to grant same-sex upl the same rights as heterosexual upl.

GERMAN URT REJECTS SE TO ALLOW GAY ADOPTN ON TECHNILY

Prently Germany gay marriage is not allowed and gay upl nnot jotly adopt a Febary however the Constutnal Court granted gay dividuals the right to adopt a child already adopted by their civil partner, unr a practice known as ‘succsive adoptn’. “The Berl District Court has barely nsired the relevant lerature and the lg of the Constutnal Court s referral, ” said the urt a statement Germany’s Lbian and Gay Associatn said regretted the urt would not make a lg, but add took heart om the fact that the urt clearly supported the equal treatment of same-sex upl. Germany has allowed same-sex upl to register civil partnerships sce 2001It hasn%27t moved toward allowg full gay marriageCourt said same-sex partners n adopt the other partner%27s adopted child or stepchildBERLIN (AP) — Germany's hight urt strengthened gay upl' adoptn rights a lg Tuday that the untry's jtice mister greeted as "a historic step.

Unlike many other European untri, cludg Spa, the Netherlands and, most recently, France and Bra, hasn't moved toward allowg full gay urt led on a challenge to the existg l om a woman who was nied permissn to adopt a Bulgarian girl whom her partner had adopted. Germany's ma gay rights group lled for that to be changed after the a separate se, the urt is nsirg whether gay partnerships should be granted the tax breaks given to married upl; 's unclear when a lg will e. "The mister is a member of the Free Democrats, the socially liberal junr partner Chancellor Angela Merkel's members of Merkel's nservative Unn bloc, however, are more skeptil about gay marriage and adoptn.

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GERMAN URT STRENGTHENS GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS

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Some untri are acceptg, even gay-iendly, and have strong LGBTQ+ protectns such as safeguards that prerve dividuals' rights to marriage and employment. In the world's most homophobic untri, LGBTQI+ liftyl may be illegal and punishable by prison sentenc, lashgs, or the ath penalty. Bee of this breadth, termg each untry's level of LGBTQI+ support requir the parison of many ditors, rangg om whether gay marriage is legal to whether LGBTQI+ dividuals are accepted by the general populatn or subjected to discrimatn and possible vigilante vlence.

GERMANY STRENGTHENS GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS

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. 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.