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	Civil union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unions that are similar to or synonymous with civil unions include civil partnerships, registered partnerships, and domestic partnerships.
		The controversial civil unions law enacted in Vermont in 2000 was passed as a response to the Vermont Supreme Court ruling in Baker v.
		A Vermont civil union is nearly identical to a legal marriage, as far as the rights and responsibilities for which state law, not federal law, is responsible are concerned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Civil_unions (2433 words)

	Belgium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Belgium hosts the headquarters of NATO and a major part of the European Union's institutions and administrations, including the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and the extraordinary and committee sessions of the European Parliament, as well as parts of its administration.
		Belgium is one of the few countries that has compulsory voting, thus having one of the highest rates of voter turnout in the world.
		Currently, the Belgium economy is heavily service-oriented and shows a dual nature with a dynamic Flemish part with Brussels as its main multilingual and multi-ethnic centre and a GNP/person which is one of the highest from the European union, and a Walloon economy that lags roughly one quarter behind (in GNP/person).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belgium (4989 words)

	Belgium - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Belgium hosts the headquarters of NATO and a major part of the European Union's institutions and administrations, including the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and most of the sessions of the European Parliament.
		Belgium is one of the few countries in which voting is compulsory; it has one of the highest rates of voter turnout in the world.
		Belgium is composed of the five northern Dutch-speaking provinces of Flanders, the five southern French-speaking provinces of Wallonia (the German-speaking Community is located in the province of Liège along the German border) and the bilingual Capital Region of Brussels.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/b/e/l/Belgium.html (3919 words)

	Category:Marriage, unions and partnerships by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of U.S. state laws on same-sex unions
		There are 2 subcategories shown below (more may be shown on subsequent pages).
		Pages in category "Marriage, unions and partnerships by country"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Marriage,_unions_and_partnerships_by_country (92 words)

	Civil Unions Information
		The civil union law is hailed by some as a fair compromise to the issues before the legislature.
		Civil unions can be dissolved in Vermont family court in exactly the same manner as divorce of married couples: as of July 2002, four such unions had been so dissolved.
		The attempt of Glen Rosengarten to obtain, in his home state of Connecticut, a formal dissolution of his Vermont civil union with Peter Downes, then a resident of New York City, was rejected by the court of appeals on the basis of lack of jurisdiction.
	www.bankdynamic.com /laws/civil-unions.html (820 words)

	The national Civil Service in Belgium
		The specific characteristics of Belgium's civil service system therefore, must not be sought in the administration of the central state, but rather in the tradition of autonomy and struggle of provinces and cities against the central power.
		Neutrality does not mean that civil servants are not allowed a political opinion or political activity but that in exercising their functions they are forbidden to say or do anything that will make the user of the public service doubt the impartiality of the service.
		It is clear that the political culture of the civil servants is the opposite to that of the politicians.
	www.indiana.edu /~csrc/honde.html (17646 words)

	Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force - Why Civil Unions Aren't Enough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The civil union law embodies "partial equality"-- a concept as bizarre as "partial pregnancy." Freedom to marry advocates grudgingly supported the law only as a first step, but by no means as the end.
		The differences between civil unions and marriage have been pointed out and used by courts ruling out child visitation with the non-custodial parent while that parent's civil union spouse is living with him or her in yet another two states.
		Any suggestion that the civil union law creates a "separate" but "equal" status (or, as Governor Dean liked to say, in an effort to distance his pro-civil union, anti-marriage position from the shameful philosophy of Jim Crow, "different but equal") is simply untrue.
	www.vtfreetomarry.org /notenough.php (2167 words)

	Index of Economic Freedom 2006 - Belgium
		Belgium is still run on a largely corporatist basis, with the business federation and unions negotiating a national collective bargaining agreement every other year.
		As a member of the European Union, according to the World Bank, Belgium was subject to a common EU weighted average external tariff of 1.3 percent in 2003, down from the 2.4 percent for 2002 reported in the 2005 Index.
		Belgium's domestic banking system has undergone privatization in the past few years and is now almost all privately owned.
	www.heritage.org /research/features/index/country.cfm?id=Belgium (930 words)

	Preemptive Karma: Civil Unions: the new separate but equal?
		Whether civil unions are tantamount to institutionalized bigotry very much depends on one's point of view as well as exactly what provisions said civil union law(s) contain.
		Such a hypothetical civil union law would be distinctly different from the Jim Crow laws which spawned the "separate but equal" phrase precisely because it would grant perfectly equal rights/advantages.
		I just don't know how to get there, but I think civil unions are a mistake, because they are not the equivalent of marriage, and never will be as long as the federal government doesn't recognize them in any way, shape or form.
	www.preemptivekarma.com /archives/2005/07/last_week_i_spe.html (2729 words)

	Minuteman Message Board :: View topic - Civil Unions
		Civil partnership is formed when a couple sign certain documents in an exclusively civil procedure, whereas a marriage becomes binding when partners exchange spoken words in a civil or religious ceremony.
		The civil union, therefore, would not be recognized, accepted, or blessed by God--but only by the state.
		Marriage is a religious institution; civil union is a secular institution.
	www.renewamerica.us /bb/viewtopic.php?t=3837&sid=0d1a88e9a3b693c5cee621250e78369e (2447 words)

	Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Connecticut Votes for Civil Unions?
		It appears that Connecticut is on the verge of passing a bill that allows civil unions for gay couples in that state.
		The wording of civil unions is important, especially to Gov. Rell, whose signature is required for the bill to become law.
		The origins of the Connecticut civil unions initiative can be found in a 2003 bill that would have offered certain limited domestic partnership benefits to gay couples.
	www.stcynic.com /blog/archives/2005/04/connecticut_vot.php (1471 words)

	Partners Task Force - Civil Unions: The Vermont Approach
		Civil union partners tended to be highly educated, with 63 percent having completed at least four years of college.
		Civil union couples also have the right to dissolve their unions through a “dissolution” process in Family Court.
		Civil unions do not have any legal weight in the federal sphere, and reactions from various states has been erratic — usually dismissing them as invalid.
	www.buddybuddy.com /d-p-verm.html (3141 words)

	First Trio "Married" in The Netherlands \| The Brussels Journal
		Last Friday the first civil union of three partners was registered.
		The proplem is that once these unions are recognized there are numerous benefits and entitlements that their partner('s) become eligable for.These benefits were granted as incentives for people to form family units as opposed to women simply having kids out of wedlock.
		Civil unions are legal "back-doors" to make historically unconventional relationships like a marriage.
	www.brusselsjournal.com /node/301 (6643 words)

	Partners Task Force - Civil Unions: The Connecticut Approach
		The week before the governor signed Civil Unions into law, the House of Representatives amended the bill at the governor’s urging to define marriage under Connecticut law as existing between one man and one woman.
		While widely reported that the Unions provide all the legal marriage rights and obligations under Connecticut law — estimated to be more than 500 — there is at least one area not covered, that of an estate.
		Civil unions do not have any legal weight in the federal sphere, so may not be used for immigration of a binational partner.
	www.buddybuddy.com /d-p-conn.html (1056 words)

	A Primer on Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, Domestic Partnerships, and Defense of Marriage Acts
		Because civil unions and domestic partnerships are not federally recognized, any benefits available at the state or local level are subject to federal taxation.
		It allows each state to choose whether or not to recognize a same-sex union that is recognized in another state—thus allowing a choice of whether to enforce the U.S. Constitution's “full faith and credit” clause (which requires each state to recognize the laws and legal contracts of other states) in this matter.
		The amendment would define marriage as the union of a man and a woman and could be used to overrule state or local protections for same-sex couples and their children.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0922609.html (887 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / SJC affirms gay marriage
		Saying that "separate is seldom, if ever, equal," four of the high court's seven justices said that the civil-unions bill produced by the state Senate would not pass muster under the court's Nov. 18 gay marriage ruling, which found the state's prohibition of gay marriage unconstitutional.
		With the civil unions bill tossed out, opponents of gay marriage, including Governor Mitt Romney, stepped up their calls for a constitutional amendment to define marriage solely as the union of a man and a woman.
		In December, the state Senate produced a bill that would establish civil unions and provide many of the benefits extended to married couples, but that defined marriage as a heterosexual institution.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/02/05/sjc_affirms_gay_marriage (1293 words)

	coffee grounds: Civil unions
		Seemingly un-noticed by the rest of the world except for some crazy lunatics and gay community papers, New Zealand is about to become the sixth country in the world (after the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden and Norway) to legalize civil unions.
		(I say "sixth country" because civil unions are available at the sub-national level in Canada and the United States at the moment).
		The time to mark this moment is now, because once the legislation is passed the effect on the country will be a long way short of momentuous, if international experience means anything.
	blog.lib.umn.edu /robe0419/coffee/011823.html (282 words)

	Day One for Civil Unions in the UK -- What Does it Mean?
		Posted: Monday, December 05, 2005 at 2:52 am ET Same-sex civil unions are set to become legal in the United Kingdom today.
		Britain has not gone that far, but civil partnership will be marriage in all but name, granting legal rights virtually identical to those enjoyed by married couples.
		According to BBC News, Civil partnerships are a legally recognised union between two people of the same sex.
	www.albertmohler.com /blog_read.php?id=398 (1062 words)

	MPI \| Experts
		Most recently he advised the Dutch Ministry of Justice on immigration issues during its Presidency of the European Union, and co-organized the November 2004 EU ministerial conference on the integration of immigrants in Europe.
		Chishti was founder and Director of the Immigration Project of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE).
		He was responsible for formulating and executing the union's programs and policies on immigration issues, through a combination of direct legal service, advocacy, coalition building, public relations, and workplace education.
	www.migrationpolicy.org /staff (3799 words)

	Adolf Hitler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He was a master orator and with all of Germany's mass media under the control of his propaganda chief, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, he persuaded most Germans he was their saviour from the Depression, the Communists, the Versailles Treaty and the Jews.
		In July 1936 the Spanish Civil War began when the military, led by General Francisco Franco, rebelled against the elected Popular Front government of Spain.
		Hitler sent troops to support Franco and Spain served as a testing ground for Germany's new armed forces and their methods, including the bombing of undefended towns such as Guernica, which was destroyed by the Luftwaffe in April 1937, prompting Pablo Picasso's famous eponymous painting (see Guernica (painting)).
	adolf-hitler.iqnaut.net (6091 words)

	WWW Virtual Library Labour History: Geographical
		Australian Trade Union Archives Australian Trade Union Archives [ATUA] is an online gateway for researchers and scholars of labour history, designed to link together historical detail, archival resources, published material and current information about Australian industrial organisations, mainly including trade unions and also employer bodies.
		Beaglehole Room General information about the trade union records in the J. Beaglehole Room, the official repository within the Library of all archives and manuscript material at the library of the Victoria University of Wellington.
		Trade Union History Project This organization was established in 1987 to foster and record New Zealand trade union and labour history.
	www.iisg.nl /~w3vl/vl-geo.html (9505 words)

	Democratic hopefuls favor civil unions - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dean said civil unions give homosexuals legal rights, such as health benefits, inheritance, child custody and hospital visitation, in the absence of marriage.
		Sharpton said simply granting civil unions is a form of discrimination against homosexuals, "like saying we'll give fls or whites or Latinos the rights to shack up, but not marry."
		Gephardt told the audience about how he and his wife have embraced their daughter, Chrissy, when she announced a year and a half ago that she was leaving her husband because she was a lesbian.
	www.washtimes.com /national/20030715-114859-8471r.htm (596 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Gay Marriages, Civil Unions Around World
		Many states have passed amendments to their constitutions defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, and banning both gay marriage and civil unions.
		The move is later annulled by the state Supreme Court, but a San Francisco judge rules the law banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
		But it specifically defines marriage as being the union of a man and a woman.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/w-eur/2005/dec/05/120504622.html (444 words)

	UN Announces it Will Recognize Homosexual Civil Unions and Unmarried Heterosexual Partnerships
		The only stipulation is that the civil union be recognized, and a letter of permission granted, by the employee's country of origin.
		Homosexual "marriage" is currently sanctioned in the Netherlands, Belgium, and two Canadian provinces, while Scandinavia has extensive allowances for non-married partners of varied description.
		Wide-ranging civil union laws have been enacted in parts of Western Europe, New Zealand and Australia, whereas the U.S. is not expected to give its consent at this time for American UN employees.
	www.lifesite.net /ldn/2004/jan/04013005.html (296 words)

	Belgium Approves Same-sex Marriage \| Belgium \| Civil Union / Marital Rights \| Transgender Crossroads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		[BELGIUM] - On Thursday, Belgium became the second country in the world -- after the Netherlands -- to legally recognize gay marriages.
		According to the Associated Press, lawmakers in the House of Representatives approved the measure by a 91-22 vote, after the bill had already passed in the Senate.
		Like other European nations, Belgium had already granted limited legal protections to same-sex unions, including tax and property rights.
	www.tgcrossroads.org /news/?aid=604 (244 words)

	Vows - New York Times
		But now that Vermont has introduced ''civil unions'' for gays, Belgium and the Netherlands have legalized gay marriages and courts have mandated them in both Ontario and Massachusetts, stopping gay marriage appears to require measures (like an amendment to the Constitution) more reactionary than Americans will countenance.
		What opponents of single-sex marriage have failed miserably to do is enunciate a rationale for blocking it that the country can rally behind.
		A marriage regime that excludes homosexuals ''no longer accords with liberal justice or the meaning of marriage as it is practiced today.'' Neither, Rauch writes, do Vermont-style civil unions (which he calls ''marriage-lite'') and corporate partnership plans (which he thinks should be abolished the moment gay marriage is passed).
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E2DF1339F932A25757C0A9629C8B63 (645 words)

	ABC News: Gay Civil Unions Are Coming to Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Roger Lockyer, 78, left, and Percy Stevens, 66, right, partners for 40 years, are reflected in their house mirror as they talk in central London, Wednesday Nov. 30, 2005.
		The law passed last year permits civil ceremonies that will give same-sex couples such benefits as the right to a partner's pensions and exemption from paying inheritance tax on a partner's home.
		Because the law requires a couple to give notice of their intention to enter into a union, the first ceremonies won't be held until Dec. 20 in Scotland.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1372717 (474 words)

	ECCO \| Civil Unions / Marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Recognizes Denmark's civil uinon law (as a self-governing dependency of that country)
		Civil Unions (Zurich and Geneva only; federal legislation pending)
		: Although the national leadership of Evangelical Lutheran Church discourages any blessings of same-sex couples, there are no official rules prohibiting such unions, and some pastors have said they intend to perform ceremonies for homosexuals.
	www.eccopac.org /Laws/LawsMarriage.html (293 words)

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