Portuguese Constitutional Court Upholds Traditional Marriage
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LISBON, July 31, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Portugal's Constitutional Court today reaffirmed the country's definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. Judges ruled 3-2 against two lesbians who attempted to use a constitutional loophole to challenge the law. Teresa Pires and Helena Paixao, both of whom have children and are divorced, were turned away from a registry office in Lisbon in 2006 when they attempted to “marry” and were told the law stipulates that marriage is between people of different genders. The lesbians filed a complaint in a Lisbon court in 2006 but the […]
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