カテゴリ
お知らせ トランス LGB(TIQ) HIV/AIDS 米政治 国内政治 ジェンダー・セックス バックラッシュ Books Movies Theatres TV & Radio Music Others Opinions 以前の記事
2007年 09月 2007年 08月 2007年 07月 2007年 06月 2007年 05月 2007年 04月 2007年 03月 2007年 02月 2007年 01月 2006年 12月 2006年 11月 2006年 10月 2006年 09月 2006年 08月 2006年 07月 2006年 06月 2006年 05月 2006年 04月 2006年 03月 2006年 02月 2006年 01月 2005年 12月 2005年 11月 2005年 10月 2005年 09月 2005年 08月 2005年 07月 検索
最新のトラックバック
その他のジャンル
ファン
記事ランキング
ブログジャンル
画像一覧
|
Gay Marriage to Be Legal in Spain on Sun.
By DANIEL WOOLLS, Associated Press Writer Sat Jul 2,11:43 AM ET The law legalizing gay marriage in Spain has cleared its last bureaucratic formality -- being published in an official government registry -- and will take effect on Sunday. An official of the ruling Socialist party, which sponsored the law, said the party will now seek legislation to protect Spain's estimated 8,000 transsexuals. The gay marriage law, passed Thursday by the lower house of parliament, was published Saturday in the gazette, the Boletin Oficial del Estado, which records all government decisions in Spain. The document specified that the new law will go into effect Sunday. The law was signed by King Juan Carlos and Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Gay couples are not expected to start getting married until late this month because of the paperwork needed before they go to town halls and other civil bodies that marry people in Spain, according to Spain's main federation of gays and lesbians. The law gives same-sex couples the right to wed, adopt children and inherit each other's property, making their legal status the same as that of heterosexual couples. Gay and lesbian groups planned a big street rally for Saturday evening in Madrid to celebrate passage of the law, which makes Spain the third country in the world to grant full recognition to gay marriage. The others are the Netherlands and Belgium. Canada is expected to follow suit later this month. Several European countries and a few U.S. states recognize civil unions among same-sex couples but this falls short of treating them like married couples. Fierce criticism of the law from the Catholic church continued, with the head of the Spanish Bishops Conference, Bishop Ricardo Blazquez, branding it unconstitutional. Speaking on Vatican radio Friday, he said called the law's passage "a sad day for the Spanish people because the stability of marriage has been gravely injured and tremendous confusion over marriage and family has been unleashed." Meanwhile Pedro Zerolo, a Madrid town councilor who is gay and heads the Socialist party's social policy department, said Friday that when parliament reconvenes after its summer recess the government will present a bill that aims to regulate treatment of transsexuals. There is no such law now. It will address such issues as recognizing gender and name-changes of people who say their true gender is not the one they were born with, Zerolo said. A draft of the bill states that such persons will not have to undergo complete genital-change surgery and will only need a certificate from a psychologist, Zerolo said Friday. One issue that has not been settled is whether the government will pay for sex-change operations. Such funding was a plank in the Socialist party platform for the March 2004 general election that the party won. But the government has to negotiate this with regional governments who are responsible for state-paid health care in Spain. An organization of Spanish transsexuals, Transexualia, says there are about 8,000 transsexuals in Spain.
by alfayoko2005
| 2005-07-03 09:23
| LGB(TIQ)
|
ファン申請 |
||