Politics
Tuesday March 2, 2004
Spain to Allow Legally Recognized Homosexual Civil Unions
Has one of the world's lowest birthrates
TODAY'S HEADLINES
E-MAIL
PRINT
MADRID, March 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP) has proposed allowing legally recognized homosexual civil unions, giving homosexual couples all the benefits of marriage except adoption of children. The new law would allow recognition of civil unions for homosexuals with a simple contract akin to a marriage license.
The proposal comes just as the country is about to vote in the March 14 elections with recent polls showing the Popular Party leading the Socialists by nine per cent.
In response to the anti-family initiative, the Spanish pro-family group PROFAM said that PP has lost the support of Spanish families. The group is encouraging families to lobby their prospective political representatives on the issue.
The news may not come as a surprise to LifeSiteNews.com readers who learned last year that when Sweden announced that its foreign embassies could perform homosexual 'partnership' ceremonies Spain wrote to say it had no objection.
This latest action will add to the country's moral and demographic plunge. Despite a devastatingly low birth rate threatening its pension system, the country encouraged more abortion by legalizing the abortifacient morning-after-pill in 2001. Last year Spain approved destructive research on human embryos with embryonic stem cell research.
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
France, Portugal And Spain Do Not Object To Homosexual Marriage At Swedish Embassy
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/may/03052804.html
Spain Approves Destructive Research on Embryonic Humans
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/jul/03072904.html
Spain In The Grip Of The Culture Of Death
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/mar/00030105.html
Spain To Allow Abortifacient Morning After Pill
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/feb/01022005.html
Spain Desperate For Children As Pension System Headed For Collapse
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/jul/01071803.html
Back to TopLatest Headlines
- US Congress Passes Health Care Reform Bill 220 - 215
- Stupak Amendment to Health Care Bill Passes 240 - 194 Saturday Evening
- NY Times: Dems Banking on Later Squeezing Pro-Life Language Out of Bill in Committee
- USCCB Spokesman: "Definitely Not True" that Bishops Support Bill As it Stands
- TIME Got it Wrong - Prof. George Opposed Grandiose Kennedy Funeral
- Major Health Care Development - Pro-Life Stupak Amendment Vote OK'd for Saturday
- USCCB Condemnation Tears Facade off "Phony" Abortion Compromise for Health Bill
- Health Care Bill Includes Monthly Abortion Premium: House Minority Leader Boehner
- TIME Article Setting Burke Against O'Malley Called "Tactical strike" on Behalf of Catholic Left
- Dirty Fighting on Abortion Funding: Word-Games and Health-Care Theatrics Boggle the Mind
- Commentary on November 6 News
- Note to LifeSiteNews Subscribers with Rogers email addresses
- New York Gov. Declares Nov. 10 Extraordinary Legislative Session for Same-Sex "Marriage"
- Washington's Pro-Family Amendment Effort Defeated - R-71 Almost Certain to Pass
- Vote Pushed Back on Canadian Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Bill to Dec. 2
- Elderly U.K. Couple in Good Health Commit Suicide, Complain of Assisted Suicide Law
- Texas Late-Term Abortionist and Baptist Minister Admits: "Am I killing? Yes, I am"
- New Evidence Contradicts CCHD's Findings on Accused Pro-Abortion Partner
- Quebec Priest Denies Possibility of Sexual Reorientation Therapy on TV
- New Hampshire Same-Sex "Marriage" Law in Crosshairs after Maine's Law Crumbles
- Brooklyn Bishop Criticized for Recorded Message Praising Pro-Abortion Politician
- First Group of "Traditionalist" Anglicans in Britain Votes to Enter Catholic Church
Most Read this Week
- Planned Parenthood Director Resigns after Watching Ultrasound of Abortion Procedure
- Nun Defiant Following Rebuke, but Stops Abortion Escorting
- Breaking: Dominican Community Apologizes for Nun Caught Acting as Abortion Escort
- TIME Article Setting Burke Against O'Malley Called "Tactical strike" on Behalf of Catholics Left
- Over 200 Christendom College Students Protest Abortion at Planned Parenthood Clinic
- US Congress Passes Health Care Reform Bill 218 to 215
- Newly Identified Corporate Supporters of Planned Parenthood Named
- Scottish Gay Rights Activists Found Guilty of Pedophilia Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
- Major Health Care Bill Development - Stupak Hyde Amendment Vote OK'd
- Health Care Bill Includes Monthly Abortion Premium: House Minority Leader Boehner
MORE NEWS: 
LifeSiteNews.com Home Page Last 10 Days Archives Special Reports
Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.