Hungarian gays win partnership rights

Hungarian gays win partnership rights

(Budapest) Same-sex couples in Hungary will be able to register their relationships in a new domestic partner registry beginning July 1.

The legislation was signed into law by President Laszlo Solyom after winning passage in Parliament.

Under the law partners must be over 18, live together and be financially interdependent. It will allow gay and lesbian couples to recognize partners as next of kin, provide for joint tax filing, allow partners to make decisions in health care, and assure inheritance, social security and pension rights.

It will not, however, allow same-sex couples to adopt or undergo fertility treatments, nor will it allow couples to share a common surname.

Last December, Hungary’s Constitutional Court overturned a similar law because it also would have allowed unmarried opposite-sex couples to register. The court in its ruling said the law would diminish the importance of marriage.

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... now we lose at something to Hungary? HUNGARY!?!?!

Two steps forward...

The adoption thing weirds me out. Anyone have a clue what cultural bias allows partnerships but makes adoption taboo?

Nazi Germany, strongly Catholic, very socially conservative.

The law is even a surprise for Hungary.

The matter of adoption is a completely separate issue to same sex marriage - a non-consenting third party is entering the equation and thus a whole different set of issues come forth.

Hooray for Hungary! I'm familiar with Hungary. Yes, they are fairly conservative, so yes, this law is a surprise.