Next country to add partner rights: Poland

[Brian_Expat]

http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=14510&sd=12/04/04-12/06/04

Poland's upper house of parliament approved a bill Friday that would give gay couples legal partnership rights, immediately drawing sharp criticism from the nation's powerful Roman Catholic Church. The senate voted 38-23, with 15 abstentions, to send the draft to the lower house, or Sejm, where the bill was expected to meet resistance. If it becomes law, the bill would allow gay couples to register with city or town officials, which would give them inheritance rights and other legal guarantees--though not the right to adopt children. Senator Maria Szyszkowska, a member of Prime Minister Marek Belka's Democratic Left Alliance who authored the bill, said the decision marks the "start of building tolerance in Poland."

[Jo March]

1. LOL! I'll bet Bush wants to forget Poland now!

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[The Backlash Cometh]

2. LOL!

[FaerieWizard]

3. Home of democracy my a$$

I really don't want to hear Bush or anyone speak about the U.S. as the home of freedom and democracy when we seem to be the one western country fighting to deny citizens equal rights.

We are backsliding into exactly what the founders of this country ran from, religious persecution! Instead of the Church of England it's the Religious Right.

~The FaerieWizard