Austria lifts adoption
restrictions for gay couples
VIENNA (AP,
14/1/2015) — Austria's Constitutional Court has ruled that gay couples have the
same right as heterosexuals to adopt children.
Before the
decision Wednesday, gay partners could adopt a child only if one of them was
the child's biological parent.
Explaining the decision, chief judge Gerhart Holzinger
says there is "no objective
argument for a differing rule based solely on sexual orientation" of
the parents.
He says the adoption restriction contravened
anti-discrimination statutes of the European Human Rights Convention.
Gays still cannot marry in Austria, although couples
formally registered as living together enjoy many of the rights that married
heterosexual couples do.
Προφανώς οι Αυστριακοί δεν έλαβαν υπ' όψιν τους ότι είναι ένα δύσκολο θέμα, για το οποίο υπάρχουνε πολλές και διαφορετικές εκτιμήσεις στην επιστημονική κοινότητα.
Πόσο επιπόλαιοι!!!
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