February 2006
| SPANISH PANEL REJECTS JUDGE'S PLEA TO AVOID SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CEREMONIES |
| A federal panel of judges in Spain has rejected the petition by a justice of the peace in Valencia to abstain from presiding at “civil marriages” between same-sex partners. By a vote of 3-2, the panel refused to acknowledge the justice’s right to conscientious objection and ruled that “J |
