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Oktoberfest Seen As Focal Point For Germany’s Same-Sex Marriage Push

By: victor hoff
On: Sep 28, 2012
Tagged: Angela Merkel, Europe, gay marriage, Germany, lederhosen, Munich, Oktoberfest, Politics, same sex marriage

4 Comments

No. 1 · Dorothea from Germany
“The liberal Free Democratic Party, which has many gay members, has given its full support to same-sex marriage. But the more socially conservative Christian Democratic Union has not.”

These are just the two right-leaning parties. All left-leaning parties in the parlament support marriage equality.

Sep 28, 2012 at 5:44 pm · @Reply ·
No. 2 · dvd-junkie
Yeah, the FDP claims to support equality, and yet in parliament they recently voted against gay rights.

Sep 29, 2012 at 3:10 am · @Reply ·
No. 3 · Bob LaBlah
Where is Ol’ Ernst Rhome when you need him?

Sep 29, 2012 at 4:03 am · @Reply ·
No. 4 · alexoloughlin
France, Scotland and England are definitely the next to legalize it. The latter two will probably get a first draft of a bill early in 2013. Scotland may take the lead though and legalize it before England. Germany needs to get rid of Merkel and the CDU to make any headway. You can bet the former Hitler youth member in the Vatican will make extra special noise in his own country about that. The catholic cult is deeply entrenched in the southern part of Germany, especially in the regions of Bavaria (the Vatican rottweiler’s home territory) as well as Baden-Wurttemberg.

Sep 29, 2012 at 7:57 am · @Reply ·