BERLIN — The German Parliament’s upper house is calling on the government to embrace full-fledged marriage for gay couples, an attempt to step up pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party.
The upper house represents Germany’s 16 state governments and has a left-wing majority – unlike the lower house.
The resolution approved Friday doesn’t force the government to take any action, as the state governments stopped short of sending a draft law to the lower house for a possible vote.
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Merkel’s conservatives are refusing to go further though their coalition partners, the center-left Social Democrats, back gay marriage.
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