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PARIS - European law does not require countries to grant same-sex couples the right to marry, even if some states have already done so, the continent’s top human rights court has ruled.The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected an appeal by two Austrian men who said their country’s refusal to allow same-sex marriage violated the right to marry and prohibition of discrimination in European rights law.The ECHR is part of the Council of Europe, which promotes democracy and the rule of law among its 47 member states. Its rulings are binding on Council members since they have signed the European Convention on Human Rights.“The court observed that, among Council of Europe member states, there is no consensus regarding same-sex marriage,†the ECHR said in a statement on Thursday. Only 7 of the Council’s 47 members have approved same-sex marriage.“The court underlined that national authorities were best placed to assess and respond to the needs of society in this field, given that marriage had deep-rooted social and cultural connotations differing largely from one society to another.†...
Suck on that, DUmmies. The liberal European Court of Human Rights, says that gay marriage is not a right.
Somebody needs to find the DUmmies' reaction to this news
Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Fri Jun-25-10 12:20 PMResponse to Reply #913. Here is what the SCOTUS said in Loving v Virginia: "Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival.... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law."So in US law, marriage itself has been called a basic civil right of man. By the highest court.
Suck on that, DUmmies.
Of course they are not happy, but they still show their stupidity.http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4441982I like this last comment where the DUmmie once again compares being a rump ranger to having black skin.
