Register for E-mail alerts. Comment on articles. Sign up today, it's easy.
Close
The Washington Times Online Edition

Cabinet adopts gay ‘marriage’

MADRID (AP) — Despite vociferous opposition from the Roman Catholic Church, Spain’s Cabinet approved legislation yesterday giving homosexuals the right to “marry” and adopt children.

Parliament was expected to review and approve the legislation promptly. That would make Spain the third nation in Europe to legalize homosexual “marriage.”

“This proposed law … removes a centuries-old barrier,” Justice Minister Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar said at Moncloa, the prime minister’s office and residence and site of the weekly Cabinet meetings.

The proposed legislation has been endorsed by the ruling socialist party, which ousted the conservative Popular Party in elections in March and comprises the biggest bloc in Parliament.

If Parliament passes the legislation, Spain would join Belgium and the Netherlands in legalizing homosexual “marriage.”

Comments
blog comments powered by Disqus
You Might Also Like
  • ** FILE ** Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich speaks during a news conference on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    Questions surface on Gingrich campaign travel payments

    By Luke Rosiak - The Washington Times

  • U.S. Capitol Police officers keep watch after a 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested Friday in an FBI sting operation near the Capitol while planning to detonate what police said he thought were live explosives, in Washington, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Terror suspect arrested near U.S. Capitol

    By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

  • Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Associated Press)

    Justice says Supreme Court should revisit campaign finance

    By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

  • Happening Now

          Independent voices from the TWT Communities

          The Political Pro-Con

          Not your typical discussion, writer Conor Murphy writes about the cons, and pros, of politics

          A Heart Without Compromise; Advocating for Children

          Children around the globe are too often silent. From victims of abuse - physical, mental, and sexual to those whose lives embrace joy, their stories are many and need to be heard.