Marriage equality is legal in 22 countries, including Argentina, South
Africa and the United States. Germany is not one of them. But now
members of the junior governing Social Democratic Party (SPD) are
pushing to change that. They are calling on their coalition partners,
the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and Christian Social Union
(CSU), to go along with a change of law that would grant same-sex
couples the right to get married and not just obtain civil unions. [...]
In Germany, same-sex couples can enter into civil unions, or "registered
life partnerships" per the verbatim translation. The law for this was
passed in 2001 and grants some, but not all, of the rights that partners
enjoy in sanctioned marriages. Civil unions enjoy the same tax benefits
that heterosexual marriages receive and allow partners to adopt each
others' children. But civil unions do not allow couples to adopt
children together as heterosexuals can.[...]
Supporting marriage equality may indeed prove a smart move from an
election standpoint, considering that 83 percent of Germans believe that
it should be legalized. That's the result of a representative poll
conducted by the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency in January 2017.
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