
Polish Right-Wing Konfederacja Seeks Ban on Same-Sex Adoption
Conservative lawmakers in Poland say recognition of same-sex marriages registered abroad could open the door to same-sex couples’ adoption rights.

Conservative lawmakers in Poland say recognition of same-sex marriages registered abroad could open the door to same-sex couples’ adoption rights.

Once a legal status acquired in one member state begins circulating freely across the Union, national constitutional distinctions gradually erode in practice even when they formally remain intact.

Campaigners say that “more will follow.”

Acting on a Supreme Administrative Court ruling, the first same-sex marriage has been officially registered in Warsaw.

Judges are ordering civil registries to recognise foreign marriages, setting up a clash between EU law and Poland’s constitution.

The case is another example of the EU using legal mechanisms to press ideological change on a reluctant member state.

The change follows an EU court ruling, though critics say Poland was not obliged to alter its marriage law.