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MOVING TOWARD MARRIAGE The State of Gay Union in Europe Registered Partnerships In 1989, Denmark became the first country to institute legislation granting registered same-sex partners the same rights as married couples. Adoption, artificial insemination and church weddings were not part of the deal, though by 1999, couples could adopt each other's children. Norway, Sweden and Iceland all enacted similar legislation in 1996, and Finland followed suit six years later. In 2001, Germany enacted a law that allows same-sex couples to register for "life partnerships," but a second act - promising equality on taxes, pensions and child custody...
...Greens' orientation towards openness and equality." What better time to demonstrate that commitment, he says, than just before the June 10-13 elections for the European Parliament? Same-sex legal partnerships - though not full-fledged marriages - were first approved in Europe in the Nordic countries. Fifteen years ago Denmark recognized "registered partnerships," which gave gay and lesbian couples rights equivalent to married couples in all matters but the right to adopt, or to receive artificial insemination. The famously tolerant Dutch surpassed the Scandinavians in April 2001 by jettisoning all distinctions between gay partnerships and traditional marriages. "In the Netherlands...
MARRIED. Australian MARY DONALDSON, 32, to Denmark's CROWN PRINCE FREDERIK, 35; in Copenhagen. The couple met in a bar during the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Now the onetime real estate agent is in line to be queen...
...draw up a global to-do list ranking, by return on investment, 36 proposed solutions to earth's 10 biggest challenges. Would reducing greenhouse gases or communicable diseases benefit us more than better education or sanitation? It would be good to know, since organizer Bjorn Lomborg, director of Denmark's Environmental Assessment Institute, claims that taking up all 10 tasks would cost $1 trillion, while global overseas aid registers at under $60 billion each year. "As long as we're not spending more, we have to prioritize," he says. So will the developed world tick off the items...
...MARRIED. Australian MARY DONALDSON, 32; to Denmark's CROWN PRINCE FREDERIK, 35; in Copenhagen. The couple, who met in a bar during the 2002 Sydney Olympics, was wed in a lavish royal ceremony. The onetime real estate agent is now in line to be Queen...