Abigail Garner
Jul 4th, 2006
Jul 4th, 2006
Congratulations Miloslav and Pavel!
Radio Praha has a short piece on couples in the Czech Republic gaining legal recognition as of July 1, 2006.
The same-sex marriage law is not completely equal to “traditional” marriage. Most notably, these couples are allowed to “raise” children, but cannot adopt them. Hmmmm….
Read and/or listen here: Gay marriage legalized
By Daniela Lazarova
July 3, 2006
Same sex couples are now recognized in:
Canada
Belgium
Spain
South Africa (by the end of this year)
The Netherlands
The Czech Republic
It’s embarrassing that the supposed leading country of the supposed Free World is not on that list.
Well except for Massachusetts, of course… But we should really be part of Canada. That’s a funny thing to write as our 4th of July fire works go off behind me.
You missed out Britain in your list — it passed a sweeping civil union law giving gay couples identical rights to straight couples; and, in contrast to the Czech Republic, gay couples there can adopt children.