http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12305858
The French constitutional court has upheld a ban on gay marriage, which was challenged by a lesbian couple with four children.
The court ruled that the ban, challenged by Corinne Cestino and Sophie Hasslauer, was in keeping with the constitution.
Activists had hoped France would join states like Spain and Belgium in legalising same-sex marriage.
An opinion poll suggests most French people are in favour. Continue reading
The Constitutional Council is due to publish its decision on the case refered to them by the Cour de Cassation, as mentioned here before: http://irishpinkadoptions.com/2010/11/16/2010-11-16-france-constitutional-court-to-decide-if-marriage-ban-is-illegal/
2 women who have lived together for 14 years, are raising 4 children, and have contracted a civil partnership (they are “PACSéare”), are seeking full constitutional and legal protection for their children.
The PACS is similar to the Irish Civil Partnership: it casts away the natural rights of children to be raised in a family protected by Society.
The Council has to decide if articles 75 and 144 of the “Civil Code”, which excludes same-gender people from civil marriage, are constitutional. Continue reading
From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/27/spanish-babies-stolen-clinic, twitted by http://www.ethicanet.org/spain-hundreds-of-babies-stolen-from-clinics-and-sold-for-adoption.
A man wearing a t-shirt of ANADIR, an association of people looking for lost children or parents, reacts while listening to a news conference. Photograph: Paul White/AP
Hundreds of Spanish babies were stolen from their parents by a secret network of doctors and nurses and sold for adoption, according to a petition filed in Madrid.
The families of 261 babies who disappeared in Spanish hospitals over five decades called on the attorney general to open an investigation into the scandal, after presenting evidence from former employees at maternity clinics and parents who admitted illegally adopting babies. Continue reading
http://www.liberation.fr/societe/01012314351-les-sages-se-penchent-sur-la-mariage-homosexuel
2 women who have lived together for 14 years, and are raising 4 children have initiated the legal proceedings to get married.
The PACS, available to them, is similar to the Irish Civil Partnership: it casts away the natural rights of children to be raised in a family protected by Society. Continue reading
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/French-court-to-examine-legality-of-same-sex-marriage-ban/articleshow/6938061.cms
PARIS: France’s highest court of appeal, the Court of Cassation, on Tuesday asked the Constitutional Council to rule on whether gay marriage should remain illegal.
The request came after individuals in August asked a court in the northeastern city of Reims to look at the legality of articles of the civil code, France’s law book, which ban same-sex marriages. Continue reading
By Nigel Davies in Barcelona
Monday November 08 2010
Pope Benedict XVI attacked abortion and gay marriage in a Mass to consecrate Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia church in another pointed criticism of what he called Spain’s “aggressive secularism”. Continue reading
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