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M . JUStjOUt JANUARY &. Wil Our faith is 2000 years old, Give the perfect gift . this holiday season: world Our thinking is not. EUROPE Swedish Church to Bless Gay Unions Sweden’s dominant Lutheran Church announced Dec. 6 that it will offer blessings of same-sex regis tered partnerships starting in January. Individual priests will he permitted to opt out of performing the ceremonies, but in such cases the local church will be responsible for finding another priest to perform the task. Sweden’s 1995 partnership law grants registered couples all rights and obligations of marriage. Scotland OKs Gay Adoption The gift of home! our 15 th A nniversary as an “O pen & A ffirming ” J oin CONGREGATION Music by Portland Lesbian Choir Rev. Jean Erb, guest preacher Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007 10:25 a.m. No matter who you are, no matter where you are on life’s journey, you're welcome here! Weekly worship services and church school for the children every Sunday at 10:25 a m. 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The vote was 101-6 with Gay activist and Colombian native Andrés Duque six abstentions. expressed incredible disappointment over the An attempt to exempt faith-based adoption legislature's decision to kill a civil union bill. agencies from having to consider same-sex couples was defeated. Lawmakers attempted to appease AMERICAS Colombian Civil Union Bill Dies religious opponents by adding a clause requiring that those who adopt have formed “a stable family A civil union bill that had passed Colombia’s unit,” The Scotsman newspaper said. Senate died Dec. 20 in the House of Representatives. According to the Bogotá daily El Tiempo, “Up Italy to Introduce until the last moment of the [2006] legislature, [the Civil Union Legislation bill] was on the agenda, and when it came time to Italy’s government will introduce a bill by the vote...the quorum disintegrated.” end of January to extend some of the rights of New York City activist Andrés Duque, a native marriage to same-sex and other unmarried couples. of the South American nation, explained: “The bill The civil union measure is expected to cover was actually brought to the floor for a vote, but areas such as health insurance, health care deci some cowardly legislators jumped up and left their sions, hospital and prison visitation, inheritance, seats. Incredibly disappointing if not necessarily immigration, transfer of leases and alimony. Prime surprising." Minister Romano Prodi told local media that such The bill passed the Senate in October by a 48- a law will be a “fundamental step forward.” 40 vote. It would have set up a registration mecha nism and granted registered couples marriage rights in the areas of social security, health benefits, pensions and joint ownership of property. Canada Will Not Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Canada’s House of Commons voted 175-123 on Dec. 7 not to reconsider its 2005 legalization of same-sex marriage. A motion put forward by the ruling Conservatives asked if MPs wanted to see introduc tion of “legislation to restore the traditional definition of marriage without affecting civil unions and while respecting existing same-sex marriages.” The move was seen as a fulfillment of a cam paign promise by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to revisit the matter. It was widely expected to fail. “We made a promise to have a free vote on this issue, we kept that promise, and obviously the vote Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi called civil union legislation a "fundamental step forward." was decisive, and obviously we’ll accept the demo cratic result of the people’s representatives,” Harper Faroe Islands Ban Discrimination told reporters. “I don’t see reopening this question The parliament of the Faroe Islands, known as in the future.” the L0gting, voted 17-15 to ban discrimination Most Liberals, 12 Conservatives and all mem based on sexual orientation Dec. 15. bers of the New Democratic Party and the Bloc Similar bills failed in 1988, when only one MP Québécois voted against the measure. Among the voted to protect gays, and in 2005, in a 12-20 vote. Conservative opponents were Cabinet members The new push for the law followed a homo- John Baird, Lawrence Cannon, David Emerson, phobic attack in a bar in Torshavn, the capital, on Peter MacKay, Jim Prentice and Josée Verner. popular local radio host Rasmus Rasmussen, who There have been more than 12,000 same-sex is openly gay. He and his family also received marriages in Canada since 2003, when courts in threatening phone calls after local media report individual provinces began legalizing them. ed on the beating. Foreigners are welcome to go get married in The Faroes, population 47,000, are a self- • Canada, and there is no waiting periixl after acquir governing overseas administrative division of ing a license except in Quebec, which has a 20-day Denmark located north of Scotland, halfway delay that can be waived if advance arrangements are between Norway and Iceland. made with the person who will conduct the wedding.
