30 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Isn't it funny how only one of the European big boys (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland) recognizes gay marriage? Italy and Poland don't even recognize civil unions! They can't use the ''We're culturally Catholic'' nonsense either since Spain, Portugal, Argentina and Mexico City acknowledge gay marriage. Those Italians are so ''culturally sophisticated'' that they don't think homosexuals should have the right to adopt children or acquire inheritances! There are no civil unions in other EU nations such as Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Latvia, Slovakia, Estonia, Cyprus and Malta too. So in order to join the EU, capital punishment must be banned? But giving homosexuals no rights is allowed? Although not EU members, what about other western Europeans such as San Marino and Monaco? Don't those wealthy people got the education to know better? Other non-EU European countries that don't acknowledge civil unions are: Ukraine, Serbia and Montenegro, Belarus, Croatia, Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Maldova. Religious belief are irrelevant to whether people deserve basic civil rights like being able to adopt a child or getting to acquire their heritances if they die. I don't see how that is directly impacting the lives of others. So in the southern US where slavery, segregation and mistreatment of black Americans was the way of life for centuries (and maybe there were even religious justificiations), that should be continued? If these groups don't want to give people these basic rights, then the European Union shouldn't contradict their humanist stances by letting these countries in.... Read More »
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