VALLETTA –
The parliament of Malta Wednesday decided that the marriage between a man and man or woman and woman. Only the members of the nationalist opposition party, voted against the amendment.
In the new law gay couples under the same adoptierecht as heterosexual partners. In addition, geslachtsaanduidingen as “husband, wife, mother and father” in the legal text to be replaced by gender-neutral concepts.
The adoption of the proposal is a milestone for the outspoken catholic island nation in the Mediterranean Sea. Only in 2011 was the scheidingsrecht entered. After this new decision went into the streets of the capital Valletta, the rainbow flags. Prime minister Joseph Muscat spoke of a historic day. “Now We can all say we are equal.”