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Monday, 3 October, 2011
Swiss society 'not ready' for gay adoption?
Last Friday, gay rights groups lost their battle to change the law to give equal adoption rights to same sex couples. The National Council rejected a petition which also argued gay couples should be able to adopt the children of their partner within a registered partnership. Currently, the Federal Registered Partnerships Act clearly bans that possibility. Gay associations estimate that between 6,000 and 30,000 children in Switzerland live in gay families. So what happens next? WRS’s Dave Goodman talks to Maria von Känel who is a member of the Committee for all Families which submitted the petition to the government and the Parliament. She is also vice president of Rainbow Families, a national association that seeks equal rights for gay families:
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SWISS peoples “not ready”?? - What do you mean : a choice in ’journalism’??
Rather consider; Maybe it’s just WRONG!
NO: Rather; “God Created Adam and Eve; not Adam and Steve!”
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We are not waiting for a low, we have children as well as anybody else, we dont wait for an agreement of straight people deciding for us…
One day…they will believe that we will be able to raise children without anybody saying , we are not capable…the only difference today ? We Decide to raise children, and they are welcome in our gay families, sometimes better than in a straight family…we want them, and we love them as well, and we try to give them a good balance as much as possible !!
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