The Austrian parliament legalized civil unions today! The vote was 110-64, so it passed by almost a super-majority.
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Austrian civil unions are not equal to marriage, since CU'd couples aren't allowed to adopt or use artificial insemination, and couples have to register in the coat closet rather than the regular registry office. Still, this is a huge and excellent start. We know that these prohibitions will fall away in time.
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Austria joins the following countries in offering civil unions/partnerships: Andorra, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Luxembourg, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Slovenia, Switzerland, Wallis and Futuna, United Kingdom, Uruguay.
And these countries have full marriage equality: Belgium, Canada, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden
Friday, December 11, 2009
Civil unions in Austria
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An American readership is likely to think that civil unions are legally much less comprehensive than full marriage equality. In fact, in the two countries I know personally, Germany and the UK, there is full legal equality in virtually all but the name. That includes anything to do with medical decision making, pension rights, property rights, inheritance rights etc.
As late as in the 1990s Austria had a ban on pro Queer information on it's books, which (if enforced) would have made the singing of Franz Schubert's songs illegal...
Times change.
God bless *America!
{sarcasm/Off}
* "US of", Dahveed. ;-/
I liked it.
Bathmate
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