Spanish leaders favor gay weddings
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The Spanish government has approved a draft law to legalize same-sex marriages, it was reported Friday. The bill gives homosexual couples the same rights as heterosexual couples, including the adoption of children, the BBC said.
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The Vatican's top official for family issues decried as a "sad step" Saturday the Spanish government's proposal to allow homosexuals to marry and adopt children.
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Spain Socialist government on Thursday took the expected step on Thursday of approving a draft law creating same-sex "marriage" and giving homosexuals the right to adopt children.
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The Spanish government's plans to legalize same-sex marriage was lambasted by the Roman Catholic Church, the BBC reported Tuesday.
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The right by homosexual couples to adopt children will reportedly be added to draft legislation legalizing gay marriages to be adopted Friday by Spain's Socialist government.
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Relations between Spain's government and  its clerics have turned hostile. Socialists swept to power  earlier this year with a pro-gay, feminist agenda and the  church is putting up a fight.
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MADRID, Oct 1 (IPS) - Spain will join the ranks of the first countries in   the world to grant homosexual couples the same legal rights as  heterosexuals  if a new bill approved by the Spanish cabinet  Friday is passed by  parliament.
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MADRID The Roman Catholic Church on Monday assailed the Socialist government&#39;s plans to legalize gay marriage, saying it would be like releasing a &quot;virus&quot; into Spanish society.
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Gay rights leaders are debating if they should moderate their goals after 11 states approved constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriages.
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A controversial law that would give gay and lesbian couples the same right to marry, divorce and adopt children as heterosexuals was approved by Spain's Socialist government Friday.
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Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday praised a recent demonstration in Rome against proposed legislation granting legal rights to unmarried couples, including gay ones, saying it showed that traditional family was at the core of Italian society.
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Spain allows transsexuals who have not had a sex change to alter their gender on their official documents.
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U.S. Catholic bishops on Wednesday  launched an ambitious plan to promote marriage, an institution  they see as being under extreme pressure, not specifically from  those who favor homosexual unions but from the general  difficulty of getting and staying married.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Two lesbians have formed Mexico's first gay civil union in a landmark ceremony in one of the world's most Roman Catholic countries.
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The Spanish Catholic Church's about-face on the use of condoms in the fight against AIDS was met with anger by left-wing politicians, commentators and gay rights groups who labeled the church's position as unreasonable and inhuman.
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September 20, 2004 -- MADRID - Spain&#39;s Socialist government will approve gay marriage, a party leader said yesterday, putting into action a plan that has enraged church leaders in this traditionally Catholic country.
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A controversial law that would give gay and lesbian couples the same right to marry, divorce and adopt children as heterosexuals was approved by Spain's Socialist government on Friday.