Nina Hagen Quotes
It's a human right to be able to have a relationship.
Israel, like the UK, does not have a constitution or bill of rights per se, and laws passed by the Knesset serve the role of enumerating rights.
This was an incredibly radical notion at the time. For Catholics, there was no divorce of any kind allowed. And under the Church of England rules, a husband could get a divorce for a wife’s adultery. The social stigma of the rigid English society of the time was enough to make couples stay together long after they had lost affection and were even involved with others. Shelly saw this as a freedom and human rights issue.
He was defying the Italian Federal Laws and the position of the Vatican with respect to gay marriage. The 16 couples were wed abroad as gay marriage was then illegal in Italy. However, he officially recognized the marriages, something which the conservatives in the Federal government had been able to avoid then. The photo is the mayor congratulating one of the couples he registered.
Catharina "Nina" Hagen is a German singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her theatrical vocals and rose to prominence during the punk and new wave movements in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
