Allow same-sex couples to marry, say Greens

SAME-SEX couples should be allowed marry and adopt children, the Green Party has said.

Launching its policy document on marriage and partnership rights yesterday, the party rejected the suggestion that a legally inferior category of relationship had to be created for same-sex couples.

“To relegate same-sex couples to some inferior marriage-like institution is to deny them their human rights, their dignity and their rights as citizens of this State,” it said.