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Old 01-08-2010, 11:11 PM
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Portugal, as expected:
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Portugal's parliament has passed a law to legalise same-sex marriage, but rejected proposals to allow homosexual couples to adopt.
BBC News - Same-sex marriage law backed in Portugal's parliament
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Two steps forward and one step back.
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Old 01-08-2010, 11:14 PM
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Yeah...

Well, it's not back, just not forward.
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Old 01-09-2010, 03:33 PM
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How is it not forward?
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Old 01-09-2010, 03:38 PM
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Because gay couples would still prohibited by law from adopting.
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Old 01-09-2010, 05:30 PM
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I'm still missing something. They couldn't previously marry or adopt, right? So being able to marry is a step forward, no?
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Old 01-09-2010, 05:32 PM
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That's the two steps forward that PW was talking about. I was just saying the step back is not really a step back.
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Old 01-09-2010, 05:37 PM
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On the other hand, an argument could be made that it's not really full marriage rights if even married gay couples are barred from adoption.
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Old 01-09-2010, 05:41 PM
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Yeah, it's unfinished.
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Old 01-09-2010, 05:42 PM
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Ah, gotcha.
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Old 01-09-2010, 07:46 PM
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On the other hand, an argument could be made that it's not really full marriage rights if even married gay couples are barred from adoption.
That's why I said two steps forward, one step back. It still is going forward though, now they need to work on full rights. It always seems that is the way these things go--baby steps, with a lot of faltering. But each step forward is that much closer to full rights. So while it's good news to hear, it's not completely finished.
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It's settled, then. Portugal has taken no more or less than a single step forward.
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Old 01-09-2010, 08:28 PM
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Portugese gay men?

I can picture that.
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Suddenly I can't picture anything else.
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President now says he'll ratify:
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Portugal's President Anibal Cavaco Silva says he will sign a law legalising same-sex marriage passed by parliament earlier this year.

The law had been fiercely opposed by conservatives in the Catholic country.

The ratification will make Portugal the sixth country in Europe to allow same-sex marriage after Belgium, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands and Sweden.
BBC News - Portugal's president to ratify same-sex marriage law

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Portugal's Constitutional Court validated the bill last month.
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wooooo gays win again, awwwww pope loses again
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More like PortuGAY, amirite?
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NOT THAT THERES ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT/não é que não há nada de errado
com que lol do you get it guys
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NOT THAT THERES ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT/não é que não há nada de errado
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MagNIFIcent joke, sir.
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You are a CREEK to your people Chuck. No less obligatoried.
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They're free to make as many babies as they want the old fashioned way.
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NOT THAT THERES ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT/não é que não há nada de errado
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MagNIFIcent joke, sir.
So I've never understood why Doctor X capitalizes those letters. I must have missed that episode of Seinfeld. Can someone explain?
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LOL no. I haven't seen it either.
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I always thought it was an emphasis added in case you want to pronouce it aloud while playing along at home. :shrug:

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