European Courts Rule Gay Marriage Isn’t A Human Right

The European Court of Human Rights in Brussels have rejected a case by Austrian gay couple Horst Michael Schalk and Johann Franz Kopfa who argued that their human rights had been violated because the state had not allowed them to get married.  Able to enter into legally recognised partnerships that carry some but not all of the rights of marriage, the men argued that they were being treated as lesser people because of this.

A panel of seven judges however acted to disagree ruling inanimously that gay couples were not covered by the guarantee of the right to marry in Europe’s human rights convention and that whilst there was “an emerging European consensus towards legal recognition of same-sex couples,” it currently should be left to the individual states of Europe to work out what that is.

Via Fox News. photo by CarbonNYC