Islamic Racism

During the 1990s, several of the city councils and autonomous communities of Spain had opened registers for civil unions that allowed unmarried couples of any sex to enjoy some local benefits. Also Spanish law allowed single people to adopt children. Thus a same-sex couple could de facto adopt a child, but the partner who was not the legal parent had no rights in case of breakup or decease.

On June 30, 2004, Spanish minister of justice Juan Fernando Lуpez Aguilar announced that the Spanish Congress of Deputies had provisionally approved a government plan for legislation to extend the right to marriage to same-sex couples. This would fulfill a promise made by Prime Minister Josй Luis Rodrнguez Zapatero the day of his inauguration.

At the same time, Minister Lуpez announced a proposition (introduced by the Convergиncia i Uniу party) to introduce legal status for both opposite- and same-sex common-law unions (parejas de hecho, "de facto unions"), and another