Melech 9,900 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 "Germany’s opposition parties have demanded that Berlin’s grand coalition follow Ireland’s example and legalise same-s-x marriage. Friday’s vote, and Saturday’s result, generated huge interest in Germany – topping the main evening news and shattering many dearly-held if dusty cliches about the “grüne Insel” or green isle. Green Party leaders lead the charge yesterday, warning Chancellor Angela Merkel that she “can’t just sit out” the growing calls for marriage equality across Europe. “It’s time, Frau Merkel,” said Mrs Katrin Göring-Eckardt, co-leader of the Greens in the Bundestag and an influential figure in Germany’s Lutheran church. The Irish vote was a “great signal: the same love deserves the same respect”, she said, adding she was confident that Germany would soon follow Ireland’s example. Just how firmly-rooted traditional notions of Ireland are in Germany was clear from the reaction from the progressive wing of Dr Merkel’s ruling centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Mr Jens Spahn, the first openly gay CDU politician to serve in the party’s board said that “what the Catholic Irish can do, we can do, too”. “The populace is often further along in these matters than we think,” he told the Welt daily. The surprise and delight in Germany at the Irish vote was laced with a tone of impatience. Where Germany once lead the way on gay rights in Europe – introducing same-s-x civil partnerships in 2001 – it was now, many fumed, lagging behind. “Ireland is possible in Germany, if it only dared” - that was the message of Germany’s leading Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper to its readers after the Irish marriage equality vote. In a leader its senior writer Heribert Prantl noted that Germany’s registered partnership legislation lacked just one major right to put it on a par with marriage: the right of a same-s-x couple to adopt. Other rights – in inheritance and tax law – have been added since same-s-x partnership legislation was introduced in 2001. Closing the gap between registered same-s-x partnership and marriage would not require a referendum in Germany, just a parliamentary vote. “To open marriage for homos-xuals requires only courage – the courage of law-makers who have to explicitly anchor this on the statute books; and the courage of the constitutional court, which would have to reject the anticipated challenges.” The Welt am Sonntag newspaper praised the vote as a “vote of liberation” for the Irish people from the Catholic church and a “day of huge emotion” for the country. In the end it was the country’s own Catholics, it wrote, who stole the arguments from the hard-line No camp. “Welt am Sonntag” quoted TV journalist Ursula Halligan’s remark that a yes to same-s-x marriage “was the most Christian thing you can do, because the glory of god is in the human being ... to which people belong who are gay”. Germany’s national broadcast Deutschlandfunk said that Ireland had “buried the cliches about itself”. In a commentary, Dublin-based journalist Martin Alioth, told listeners that recent years of hardship had revived in Ireland a sense of social solidarity lost in the boom years. “The result (of the vote) is more than a generous gesture to a minority,” he said, “it is also the wish to define anew Irish society”." http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/angela-merkel-urged-to-follow-ireland-s-lead-on-same-s-x-marriage-1.2223984 Ireland ha impact Hopefully Germany will get it too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serendipity 7,821 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Germany learn from your good sis Ireland See talent here-->http://bit.ly/2eqeUxK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serendipity 7,821 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Does Helene support LGBT? See talent here-->http://bit.ly/2eqeUxK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melech 9,900 Posted May 24, 2015 Author Share Posted May 24, 2015 Does Helene support LGBT? Ofc she does. She is like the queen of German gays. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paco 3,040 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 better late than never Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serendipity 7,821 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Ofc she does. She is like the queen of German gays. Does she use media to spread awareness like Gaga there? See talent here-->http://bit.ly/2eqeUxK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melech 9,900 Posted May 24, 2015 Author Share Posted May 24, 2015 Does she use media to spread awareness like Gaga there?Not as vocal I think. But general Helene is amazing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serendipity 7,821 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Not as vocal I think. But general Helene is amazing yeah I know This is mind-blowingly beautiful See talent here-->http://bit.ly/2eqeUxK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmm 979 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 MPs in Australia want the same too “Ireland is possible in Germany," does this mean they want to turn Germany into Ireland though? What are Germany's grounds for not pushing through with same s-x marriage though? Do they too have an unchangeable constitution without referendum? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyQueen 2,409 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 It"s time Angela Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melech 9,900 Posted May 24, 2015 Author Share Posted May 24, 2015 MPs in Australia want the same too “Ireland is possible in Germany," does this mean they want to turn Germany into Ireland though? well, we already share the same love for beer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 I swear, Die Grünen are the best. Progressive, tolerant, and more open minded. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melech 9,900 Posted May 24, 2015 Author Share Posted May 24, 2015 What are Germany's grounds for not pushing through with same s-x marriage though? Do they too have an unchangeable constitution without referendum? Ask the Christian party. They are against it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robinladen 1,539 Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Oh, I expected it to be already legal in German ngl. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luc 4,776 Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 MPs in Australia want the same too “Ireland is possible in Germany," does this mean they want to turn Germany into Ireland though? What are Germany's grounds for not pushing through with same s-x marriage though? Do they too have an unchangeable constitution without referendum? No. They want to invade Ireland Hopefully Germany follows. It's so un-German to not be one of the first to legalize it imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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