Posted on 07/24/2015 7:13:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Members of the Berlin faction of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) voted against gay marriage in a poll on Friday, denting hopes the Chancellor’s staunch opposition could be swayed.
The Berlin faction of the CDU announced on Friday that 45 percent of its members voted against gay marriage while 35 percent voted in support in a survey, newspaper Tagesspiegel reported. […]
The recent passage of same-sex marriage in Ireland and a US Supreme Court decision in favour of gay marriage has put more pressure on Merkel and her conservative Union (CDU and Christian Social Union parties), who have long opposed full equality for same-sex couples. …
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Hope the have better luck than conservatives here.
I’m sure the EU Supreme Court will rule against national sovereignty in this case too
Bet on it. Queers will have their way.
I guess we’ll be seeing the Kenyan go over there to convince them to “evolve” or else.
No, Germany controls that. If it were judges to impose it in Germany, it’d come from the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe.
No, not forever.
If it had been left in the political arena, it never would have passed. Many states had Constitutional amendments defining traditional marriage as marriage had always been defined until the left corrupted the definition.
The people of this country still don’t want gay marriage, but the Supreme Court says we’re going to whether we like it or not.
France has had huge demonstrations against it, Germany won’t go there.
Members of the Berlin faction of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) voted against gay marriage in a poll on Friday, denting hopes the Chancellor's staunch opposition could be swayed. The Berlin faction of the CDU announced on Friday that 45 percent of its members voted against gay marriage while 35 percent voted in support... The recent passage of same-sex marriage in Ireland and a US Supreme Court decision in favour of gay marriage has put more pressure on Merkel and her conservative Union (CDU and Christian Social Union parties), who have long opposed full equality for same-sex couples.
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