European Court of Human Rights: same-sex marriage is not universal right

Associated Press ^ | 06/25/2010 | ROBERT WIELAARD and JILL LAWLESS

[SeekAndFind]

BRUSSELS – European nations do not have to allow same-sex marriage,

the European Court of Human Rights has ruled, though gay rights groups claimed a partial victory Friday because the court acknowledged growing agreement that their relationships should be recognized in law.

Seven

judges at the European court ruled unanimously that two Austrian men denied permission to wed were not covered by the guarantee of the right to marry enshrined in Europe's human rights convention.

The judges acknowledged "an emerging

European consensus" that same-sex couples should have legal recognition but said individual states may still decide what form it should take because marriage had "deep-rooted social and cultural connotations which may differ largely from one society to another."

The European Union's 27 member states range from socially liberal countries like

Sweden and the Netherlands to religious, conservative nations such as Poland.

[AbeKrieger]

gee, I wonder if Hussein will follow this “international precedent” as he is wont to do.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“an emerging European consensus”

Emerging as in...

“And the fifth angel sounded , and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.”

[DoughtyOne]

The European Court of Human Rights has spoken. I’m just breathless... /s

Gag me!

[IronJack]

Absolutely the right ruling. Recognize the relationships under law as just what they are — in essence business partnerships — but do not accord those partnerships the same standing as marriages, which they are NOT.

[Albion Wilde]

"Same-sex couples in Austria cannot adopt children."

How I wish this precedent would take root here, where radical lesbians have used children as human shields for their "cause." Not that any of the sexual anarchists will care, but I believe the entire Western world needs to adopt the standards that gays can have civil partnerships, but only a man and a woman can marry.

And further, that only those biological parents who are married are legitimate parents. This would also apply to adoptive parents. No more singles adopting or gays adopting. Step parents will still be step parents only if they are married to the biological parent of a child.

[SeekAndFind]

Well, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says that American courts should look more to foreign court rulings and international law in interpreting our Constitution.

But that is all an excuse really. Liberal justices will pick and choose which precedents ( local or international ) they want to follow.

It is not about our laws or our constitution, it is about their ability to “empathize”.

[apillar]

Sad to say, but it seems to be the only people that are standing up strongly for their religious convictions are Muslims. I think the next World War will be between the “anything goes” Socialist World and the “Radical Sharia Islamic World”. Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place! Maybe they will both destroy each other?