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Top European Court Rules All EU Countries Must Recognize Same-Sex Parents
LifeSite News ^ | 12/15/21 | Raymond Wolfe

Posted on 12/16/2021 6:36:57 PM PST by marshmallow

The ruling applies to the entire 27-nation bloc, including 11 countries that do not recognize same-sex ‘marriage.’

(LifeSiteNews) – The top court of the European Union ruled Tuesday that all EU countries must recognize homosexuals and their legal children as family members regardless of national laws on same-sex parenting or homosexual “marriage.”

In a ruling that applies to the entire 27-nation bloc, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) in Luxembourg declared that member countries must allow a same-sex couple to move and reside freely with a child legally recognized as their son or daughter by another EU state.

Eleven EU nations, most of them in Eastern Europe, do not recognize same-sex “marriage.”

The CJEU sided in favor of two lesbians who “married” in Spain and adopted a girl, Sara, born in 2019. The girl’s Spanish birth certificate lists the women, British national Jane Jones and Kalina Ivanova, a Bulgarian citizen, as her “mothers,” though she is not eligible for Spanish citizenship, as neither of the two women is Spanish.

Ivanova requested Bulgarian citizenship for Sara but was rejected, as majority-Christian Bulgaria does not permit homosexual “marriage” and Ivanova refused to provide details of the girl’s biological parents. Bulgarian birth certificates only include boxes for a child’s mother and father.

A birth certificate issued by Bulgarian authorities is necessary to obtain a Bulgarian ID, which Ivanova and Jones sought in order to travel freely with Sara across the EU. Ivanova eventually brought the case before a local court in Sofia, which declared that Sara has Bulgarian nationality, despite unresolved questions about her parents, and referred the case to the CJEU.

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TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: eu; homofascism

1 posted on 12/16/2021 6:36:57 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Seeking legitimization (tolerance, acceptance, endorsement and conscription) for that which cannot be dictated by the state. Just one more inch along the way to thought control.


2 posted on 12/16/2021 6:43:54 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: marshmallow

There’s no such thing as same sex parents.

It’s physically impossible.


3 posted on 12/16/2021 6:45:15 PM PST by ebb tide (Where are the good fruits of the Second Vatican Council? Anyone?)
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To: marshmallow

The Eastern European countries are going to leave the EU and form their own free-trade bloc but with no EU type courts or parliaments. The worse case scenario-the EU pushes them into a new bloc that includes Russian.


4 posted on 12/16/2021 6:53:48 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: marshmallow

I’ll keep saying what I’ve said before, which is that the EU is some kind of sick, Dystopian, concept and countries not interested in it (i.e., Eastern Europe) will have to decide whether to join them, which they clearly do not want to do, or look to for new friends. And there is only ONE other potential ‘friend’ in their neighborhood...the same country they despised for the 45 years of the Cold War. But now things are different as today’s ‘Europe’ isn’t all that wonderful, after all.


5 posted on 12/16/2021 6:55:50 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: marshmallow

There is no such thing. Joke’s on them.


6 posted on 12/16/2021 6:59:26 PM PST by Trillian
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To: marshmallow
The late, great JP II was a huge promoter of the EU.

POPE JOHN PAUL II: ‘Founding Father of a United Europe’

As was Paul VI a great promoter of the evil U.N.

7 posted on 12/16/2021 7:05:45 PM PST by ebb tide (Where are the good fruits of the Second Vatican Council? Anyone?)
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To: ebb tide

How many genders are we up to now? 57? So that makes 3,249 different variations of a couple. Funny how animals have had this figured out for about a billion years but Homo “sapiens” are seemingly miffed.


8 posted on 12/16/2021 7:15:20 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Maine Mariner
The Eastern European countries are going to leave the EU and form their own free-trade bloc

The EU is not a "free-trade bloc." The EU imposes massive amounts of regulations on products, which was one of the reasons for Brexit.

That said, I hope Eastern Europe does leave the EU.

Whether they start a free-trade bloc, or impose nationalist tariffs, I don't care. It's up to them.

God doesn't care about trade policy. Sodom was not punished for the local king's tax or trade policies.

9 posted on 12/16/2021 7:20:29 PM PST by Angelino97
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But yeah lets keep defending NATO and call Russia the most evil place on the planet....


10 posted on 12/16/2021 7:51:57 PM PST by charles_covington
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To: marshmallow

The left invokes ‘democracy,” but this is the reality.


11 posted on 12/16/2021 9:07:09 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: marshmallow

Eastern Europe understands things a whole lot better than WE.


12 posted on 12/17/2021 6:54:19 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

The EU has destroyed Europe. There are no more individual countries with unique culture and customs. It is just one giant morass of cross culture gobble-d-goop.

Going to a different country is like visiting a larger version of Solvang or Little Italy. The only difference is in the food and architecture. All the customs have faded to grey.


13 posted on 12/17/2021 7:31:10 AM PST by CoastWatcher
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