Green want to force homosexual marriage law

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Because the SPD is afraid of the anger with the Union, a bill on the revaluation of same-sex partnerships does not come to a vote. Now the Federal Constitutional Court is to open the way.

It is an ellenhoher file stack, the Green-Bundestag delegate Volker Beck personally in the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe carried. He has submitted an Organklage, which is to ensure that the law projects on homo-marriage finally go on.Beck and his faction want to force over the Supreme Court that the draft laws for the abolition of the marriage ban for same-sex couples come on the agenda of the Bundestag. "The basic law is clear and clear: the Bundestag has to discuss the proposals within a reasonable time and to take a decision," says Beck decisively. He is convinced that   a majority of the citizens support the "marriage for all".

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The draft law, which goes to the Greens, has already been introduced as a printed matter 18/5098 already in October 2015.This version is almost the same as a draft law of the Left-faction of 2013. It criticizes a "symbolic discrimination" of homosexual partnerships and a disadvantage especially in the case of adoption. As a solution, the opposition parties propose a supplement to the Civil Code (§1353 BGB), which clarifies that "same-sex couples can enter into a marriage." In the same direction , a  Federal Council's legislative initiative is taking place of 2013 is . Now the time is running out - at the end of June the Bundestag will meet for the last time before the end of the legislature. If nothing happens, everything will start at zero.

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Members of the Green Group are annoyed by the fact that there is simply no discussion of the bill in the legal committee and, ultimately, no vote in the Bundestag. "The oldest motions on the subject have already been postponed 27 times, which is almost a ritual in the Legal Committee," says Katja Keul, right-wing spokeswoman for the Greens. It was a "novelty" to carry such a blockade before the Federal Constitutional Court. Previously, one had also attempted to introduce directly the draft law on § 80 of the Rules of Procedure of the Bundestag, "but for this a two-thirds majority is necessary".

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The representatives of the SPD are not particularly well represented in the Legal Committee. They have supported the blockade of the law over four years, but are actually on the same line as the Greens. Christine Lambrecht, the first parliamentary director of the SPD Bundestag parliamentary party, says this quite clearly: "The SPD Bundestag's parliamentary group advocates the opening of marriage for same-sex couples without the If and But." The SPD even wants to draft a corresponding law draft. Only: Against the government union, you do not want to vote in committee. A bit of criticism nevertheless goes."Unfortunately, for ideological reasons, the Union is still blocking the implementation of the project, although many of the Union 's members are also aware of this," says Lamprecht.

Eyes to and through the Union

The Union is moving toward homelessness in border areas to the absurdity, as for example the CDU deputy Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker. According to her, the legislature is not in a position to try new definitions in the concept of marriage. "The main objection is that marriage is not a state concept, but it is a long-term cultural and religious term that does not belong to us in this sense at all," says the deputy.

Her group colleague Sabine Sütterlin-Waack advocates a full legal equality of life partnerships and marriages, but she does not want to call them both marriages. But there is also the fundamental rejection as in Barbara Woltmann: "The heterosexual is not comparable to the same-sex marriage, since two men or two women can not bear and bear children."

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The issue is quite delicate for the politicians of the CDU and CSU.Many in the conservative sister parties consider the traditional understanding of marriage as part of the brand core. The chancellor herself seems to have little regard for equal treatment. Occasionally, she is already "uncertain" about whether homosexual couples can do just as well as heterosexual ones for children. Unions faction leader Volker Kauder is counting on run-offs: he does not want to tackle the issue before the election.