Fags In The News - Hungary Moves Closer to Recognizing Same-Sex "Marriage"

December 23, 2007

Wednesday December 19, 2007

Hungary Moves Closer to Recognizing Same-Sex "Marriage"

New law now gives homosexuals almost all rights of married couples with few

exceptions

BUDAPEST, December 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Homosexual couples will

have almost the same rights as heterosexual married couples beginning

January 1, 2009 under a new law passed Monday by the Hungarian parliament.

Hungary's parliament approved the Registered Partnership Act with 185 votes

in favor, 154 against, and 9 abstentions. Hungary's conservative opposition

parties have said they refuse to back the new law passed by the

Socialist-led social-liberal government, calling it a "hidden attempt" to

introduce same-sex "marriage" into the country.

Gay and lesbian couples registering their partnerships will enjoy most of

the rights reserved for traditionally married couples under common law,

receiving legal protections regarding next of kin status, taxation, health

care, inheritance, social security, pensions and shared possession of a

home. The new law also allows non-married heterosexual couples to register

their partnership and receive the same "benefits."

However the law does not create for these registered homosexual (or

heterosexual) partnerships any such right to adopt, access to fertility

treatment, and any right to take a partner's surname, whichever partner that

may be.

The civil partnership act is likely the last step before homosexual

activists press for full "marriage" recognition for homosexual couples.

Activists are likely to argue that the law is inherently discriminatory by

giving homosexuals nearly all the rights of heterosexual married couples,

but deprives them of the name of "marriage."

The Hungarian government is following in the steps of two other former

communist bloc nations, the Czech Republic and Slovenia, which both

legalized the registration of same-sex partnerships in 2006.

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