Menikah memang ditoliler, tapi untuk mengabdosi anak masih ditentang oleh gereja dan rakyat Spanyol.
--- In [email protected], "Jusfiq Hadjar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bagus dah... > > Di Sepanyol juga, gay dan lesbian bisa bebas hidup menurutkan > preferensi seksual mereka.. > > Di Arab Saudi gay bisa dipancung.... > > Di Mesir diseret kedepan pengadilan.... > > > > First gay couple marries in Spain > > By CNN Madrid Bureau Chief Al Goodman > > > MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Two men -- a psychiatrist and a store window > decorator -- have tied the knot in a Madrid suburb, the first gay > couple to marry in Spain since the country's parliament passed a law > allowing such unions last month. > > Monday's civil ceremony, which lasted 10 minutes, was attended by a > few family members and friends of the couple -- as well as several > dozen representatives of the media -- in the city council room in the > suburb of Tres Cantos. > > Pedro Zerolo, a gay rights activist and member of the country's > ruling Socialist Party, confirmed it was the first marriage between > people of the same sex in Spain and called it "a triumph of common > sense and the state of law." > > Spain's Roman Catholic Church staunchly opposes the new law. > > The men said they have been a couple for 30 years. The psychiatrist, > Carlos Baturin German, and the store window decorator, Emilio > Menendez Menendez, replied affirmatively when the Tres Cantos town > councilman officiating the ceremony, Jose Luis Martinez, asked if > they wanted to marry each other. > > "I declare you -- united in matrimony," the councilman then > pronounced, dispensing with the traditional "husband and wife" > formula. > > The newlyweds then hugged each other, did not publicly kiss, and > exchanged rings. They declined to give their ages. > > The Netherlands and Belgium also allow same-sex marriage, but Zerolo > said the legal terminology in Spain's new law is more progressive > than in those countries. It also goes beyond the same-sex marriage > law in effect in some parts of Canada, because the Spanish > legislation equates fully, without any separation or distinctions, > same-sex marriage to heterosexual marriage. > > Parliament approved the controversial law on a 187-to-147 vote on > June 30, and the measure went into effect on July 3. Since then, > numerous same-sex couples have gone to city halls and civil > registries across Spain to get the required paperwork to hold a civil > wedding. > > The newlyweds in Tres Cantos said it had not been their intention to > hold the first same-sex marriage in Spain -- on the eighth day since > the law took effect -- but it just worked out that way, given the > marriage docket schedule in the middle-class suburb north of Madrid, > after their application form had been completed. > > "We're normal people who love each other and want to be happy," > Menendez said afterward outside of the Tres Cantos town hall. > > "The (Catholic) bishops have lost an opportunity to be shepherds," he > added, saying the church could have tried to mend fences by reserving > church weddings for heterosexual couples while accepting civil > marriages for gays. > > But thousands of Spaniards demonstrated in central Madrid last month > just before the law was finally approved, and last week, leaders of > the Spanish church sharply criticized the law, saying it would > create "confusion" and went against "human reason." > > The new law is also seen as a challenge for Pope Benedict XVI, given > the Vatican's strong stance in favor of heterosexual marriage only. > > The Socialist government estimates there are 4 million homosexuals in > Spain, nearly 10 percent of the population. > > Under the new law, gay couples could also adopt children, but the > first gay couple to wed said they weren't interested in adoption. > > Polls show about 60 percent of Spaniards are in favor of same-sex > marriage. > > Some church leaders have called on local officials not to perform > same-sex marriages. Tres Cantos is ruled locally by the conservative > Popular Party, which at the national level voted against the gay > marriage law in parliament. > > But the councilman officiating the first same-sex marriage was from > the Communist-led United Left coalition, which has supported the law. > > > > > > > > > Find this article at: > http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/11/spain.gay/index.html > > > SAVE THIS | EMAIL THIS | Close > > > Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the > article. Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
