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Italian court rules that Tuscan city must accept gay ‘marriage’ contracted in New York

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ROME,  – A court in the Tuscan city of Grosseto has ordered the city council to accept the “marriage” of two men, the first time such a union has been given juridical recognition in Italy . Giancarlo Cerrelli, vice president of the Catholic Lawyer’s Guild, says the ruling is a “creative judgment that takes no account of the Civil Code and the jurisprudence of the European Union .” Two homosexual men, Giuseppe Chigiotti and Stefano Bucci, contracted a legal “marriage” ceremony in New York in December last year, then returned to Italy and filed a suit against the town of Grosseto in an attempt to force the issue through the courts. The method has been highly successful in most jurisdictions around the western world, where courts in Canada, the US, Britain, Australia, and across Europe have been used by homosexual activists to overturn laws defining natural marriage. Despite what some media outlets have claimed, however, both legal experts and homosexual activists recognize

Austrian Homosexual group wants legal protection of religion removed

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Image via Wikipedia The Austrian Constitutional Court rejected a case last week that sought to extend the country’s anti-discrimination laws to protect homosexuals. Rechtskomitee Lambda (RKL), an Austrian homosexual interest group, asked the court to overturn the legal protections for racial and religious minorities found in Criminal Code Article 283, “ Incitement to Hatred ,” and in the Federal Equal Treatment Act, on the grounds that these protections were themselves discriminatory since they did not include homosexuals among the protected groups. The lawsuit was launched last year after legislative efforts to extend the protections found in the criminal code and the Equal Protection Act to homosexuals failed in the Austrian Parliament . In a recent statement, the group listed instances of alleged discrimination against the eight applicants in an attempt to prove the need for legal protection for homosexuals in the country. Examples included the refusal of an apartment lease