Comments on: Austria’s Gays Get Civil Unions! (With 37 Fewer Rights That Married Heteros!)

By: Kamikapse

Kamikapse — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:48:40 +0000

Wow.. you guys are fucking morons to run a Brüno pic with that story.

By: Attmay

Attmay — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:12 +0000

@4 Keith Kimmel:

Freedom to the goyim means freedom to deny freedom to anyone we don’t like, even though the Founding Fathers were deists.

By: Keith Kimmel

Keith Kimmel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:21:59 +0000

Gotta love how huge sections of the world have more rights than the homos in the United States. Yet this is supposedly the freeist country. Ha! Tell me another one!

By: edgyguy1426

edgyguy1426 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:28:53 +0000

What the hell is with the typos lately? They were doin better for a while then lapsed into what just looks like laziness and a half-assed rushed job. I can see some things getting through in a large article, but in a 12 word headline? Even a high school newspaper would have caught this.

By: headbang8

headbang8 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:14:46 +0000

Ah, but homosexuals can get married in a church in Austria. Jörg Haider was a case in point.

The business of not getting married in a registry office, but rather in a notary’s or lawyer’s office, applies here in Bavaria, too. Outside cities like Vienna, Salzburg or Munich, this is a frighteningly conservative part of the world.

I have a German civil union. It worked in the way we needed it to. That is, it enabled my partner to get a spouse’s visa.

But even in comparatively enlightened Germany–where two of the mayors of the three largest cities are openly gay, and the Foreign minister is openly gay–we cannot file a joint tax return, nor can I deduct my non-working spouse as a dependent.

In many ways, some of the civil union laws proposed in the USA, which the gay establishment balked at in favour of a union that included the word “marriage”, might actually have been ahead of us here in parts of Europe.

By: Mike in Brooklyn

Mike in Brooklyn — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:34:56 +0000

It is a BIG step in the right direction. Denmark, and then the Netherlands, also started with domestic partnerships/unions before recognizing full marriage equality.

Thanks to DOMA, legally married same-sex couples here in the US don’t get ANY of the protections and privileges, on the federal level, that Austria will be granting same-sex couples.

I suspect that Austria will have full marriage equality across its lands before it happens in the United States aka the “land of the free” where we, supposedly are all “created equally … and endowed by our Creator certain inalienable rights, including … the pursuit of happiness.”