The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has determined that a municipality in Poland committed a human rights violation when it denied a homosexual man's petition to inherit his partner's tenancy agreement after the partner died.The ECHR accepted that the protection of the family founded on the union of a man and a woman, as expressed by the Polish Constitution, was in principle a legitimate reason which might justify a difference in treatment. But they also wrote that, in aiming to safeguard the family, the state “must necessarily take into account developments in society and changes in the perception of social, civil-status and relational issues, including the fact that there is not just one way or one choice in the sphere of leading and living one's family or private life.”
Homosexual “rights” groups are hailing the decision as a victory, while Polish legal experts argue that the decision has no basis in Polish law, and Church and pro-family leaders are decrying it as further evidence of the ECHR's homosexualist “ideology.”
Read more:http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/mar/10030305.html
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