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Spanish magistrate resigns to protest same-sex marriage law

A Spanish judge has resigned his post in protest against the country's new law granting legal recognition to same-sex marriages. Antonio Alonso told the Spanish EFE news service that he had stepped down from his post as magistrate in the town of Pinto because "it is impossible for me, as a magistrate, to present an appeal for unconstitutionality against the law which allows these marriages." Alonso said that he resigned because it was "morally impossible" for him to preside at marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples.

New Rabbis for Israel

The two chief rabbis of Israel are among the most powerful men in that country—and indeed in world Judaism. One is the spiritual leader for Israel's Ashkenazic Jews, the other the religious master of the nation's Sephardic Jews.* Each is entrusted with the complex and often controversial task of ruling on Halakhah—Jewish religious law —for his people. In Israel, where rabbinical authorities totally control such matters as marriage and divorce for Jews and influence their behavior in many phases of public life, the rulings are often critical to the very functioning of society. Last week the two elderly incumbents in

One of the Questions at the Great Meeting of Jurists in Glasgow.

It was well said in a discussion of international arbitration at the meeting of the International Law Association in Glasgow this week that it was impossible to get a tribunal on this earth to which nations would be willing to trust questions affecting their vital interests. Source : query.nytimes.com

Ommen Would Make Divorce Easier Here;

Declaring that the present laws of New York State governing marriage and divorce are "upside down in principle," City Magistrate Alfred E. Omen, before the New York Society of Medical Jurisprudence last night advocated a radical change in th claws, by which the laws of marriage should be made much stricter and more prohibitive and those of divorce be made easier and freeer. More : query.nytimes.com

Canadian court approves gay marriage law

Ottawa - Canada's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that government plans to allow same-sex marriage were constitutional - in a landmark ruling in the long battle for equal rights for gays and lesbians. The government had asked the court to examine its bill before it enters parliament, a step expected to follow early next year. The court ruled however that religious officials could not be compelled to marry same sex couples, if they believed the practice infringed their religious beliefs. While the government was waiting for a judgment before changing federal law on same-sex marriage, courts in six Canadian provinces and one territory