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

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE
• REVISG GAY MARRIAGE VS. CIVIL UNNS
• ISSUE REPORT: CIVIL UNNS VS. GAY MARRIAGE
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

GAY MARRIAGE

LattSearchSearchLove Letter: Supreme Court Backs Digner Opposed to Same-Sex MarriagePl: a rerd number of transgenr laws, Larry Kramer’s memorial, Vows and Morn ground has shifted on gay marriage for nservative a foc of the natn’s culture wars, the issue has taken a back seat to genr Ruth GrahamSupreme Court Backs Web Digner Opposed to Same-Sex MarriageThe jtic settled a qutn left open 2018: whether bs open to the public and engaged exprsn may refe to serve ctomers based on relig Abbie VanSickle and Adam LiptakIndia’s Top Court Begs Hearg Same-Sex Marriage CaseThe Supreme Court recent years has stck down a ban on nsensual gay sex. A lg favor of legalizg gay unns would make India an outlier Karan Deep SghChurch of England Will Bls Same-Sex Coupl, but Won’t Marry ThemThe policy shift after six years of nsultatns on the issue wh the church, which also apologized for s treatment of L.

Check back for a new documentary that premiered Rome yterday, Pope Francis appeared to endorse civil unns for same-sex upl for the first time as portrayed the documentary, the pope says: “Homosexual people have the right to be a fay. In fact, Pope Francis’ support of civil unns dat back to his days as archbishop of Buenos Air, when he proposed civil unns as an alternative to gay marriage, a posn he has reerated as recently as the pope mistranslated?

REVISG GAY MARRIAGE VS. CIVIL UNNS

”No one remembered, however, bee that part of the clip had never McElwee of the Natnal Catholic Reporter pared the clips si by si and found that the pope’s quote about how gay people “have a right to be part of the fay” was clud Mr. Alazraki’s terview, repeatg that they have a right to a fay but “that do not mean approvg of homosexual acts, not the least, ” was next le Mr.

The official ed do clu his ments on the need for gay people to feel they are part of a fay, as he has said Alazraki told the Natnal Catholic Reporter on Oct. It said the ments on gay civil unns were taken out of ntext a documentary that spliced together parts of an old terview but nfirmed Francis’ belief that gay upl should enjoy legal protectns. Most pot to a 2003 document om the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah statg that “rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavur or to legal regnn of homosexual unns.

”That document lled policians’ support of same-sex unns “gravely immoral” and said that “Legal regnn of homosexual unns or placg them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of viant behavur, wh the nsequence of makg a mol prent-day society, but would also obscure basic valu which belong to the mon herance of humany.

ISSUE REPORT: CIVIL UNNS VS. GAY MARRIAGE

Cardal William Levada, who succeed Cardal Ratzger as head of the Congregatn of the Doctre of the Fah, termed 1997 as archbishop of San Francis that, rponse to the cy’s legalizatn of gay marriage, he would extend health re benefs to one other person livg wh any of his archdce’s employe, regardls of their relatnship. That way, gay upl were vered, as were, for example, two unmarried siblgs livg, the pope has not changed church teachg, but he has certaly changed the pastoral tone wh which the church approach L.

Catholics yterday, cludg the advocy groups Digny and New Ways Mistry, who celebrated the statement on civil unns but were unr no illns that the church had changed s teachg on gay else has Pope Francis said on L. Children that God lov their children and his reported statement to Juan Carlos Cz, a gay man who is a survivor of sexual abe, that God ma him the new documentary, the pope’s words are paired wh the story of Andrea Rubera, a gay man who adopted three children wh his partner.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

”The pope’s “endorsement of civil unns is not an endorsement of homosexual activy, ” the rdal said, while also notg that Francis is “very aware of the sufferg and alienatn of homosexual dividuals, gay people, who are rejected by fay and society.

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years.

In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners. C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs. That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S. Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v.

2004 was notable for upl many other stat as well, though for the oppose reason: Ten typilly nservative stat, along wh Oregon, enacted state-level bans on gay marriage. Kansas and Texas were next 2005, and 2006 saw seven more stat passg Constutnal amendments agast gay towards the end of the , gay marriage beme legal var stat, cludg Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (the first state to approve by legislative means) and New Hampshire.