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German Partnership Law Slovak Gays Meet Members of Parliament |
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By Rex Wockner International News Report Bavaria Challenges German Partnership Law
The German state of Bavaria will launch a
constitutional-court challenge to overturn a federal
partnership law for gay couples.
Parliament approved the measure last year and it will come into force in August. "We consider that this law is an attack on the protection of couples written in the constitution," Bavarian Justice Minster Manfred Weiss said. The law extends spousal rights to registered gay couples in areas such as inheritance, tenancy, health insurance, immigration, hospital visitation, child custody and alimony. Meanwhile, a new Emnid Institute poll for Hamburger Media AG has found that 72 percent of straight women and 61 percent of straight men think "gay marriage" is a "good" or "very good" idea. Pollsters surveyed 15,000 people nationwide at the beginning of the year. The poll also found that homosexuals are well-educated, wealthy and live in big cities. Two times as many gays as straights went to college, the survey revealed. Slovak Gays Meet Members of Parliament
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