Italy: Gay Couples Allowed to Register

 

By REUTERS, from the NYTimes on the Web, December 7, 2006

 

Padua became the first Italian city to allow unmarried heterosexual couples and homosexual couples to register formally as families, provoking the wrath of the Vatican and the political right.  While the decision did not authorize legal marriage for the couples, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano condemned the move and branded its supporters “hypocrites.”

 

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