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Do the same-sex couples have the right to marry under the rules of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Constitution of Republic of Poland from 1997?

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AutorTomasz Lit Win
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DO THE SAME-SEX COUPLES HAVE THE
RIGHT TO MARRY UNDER THE RULES OF
THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN
RIGHTS AND THE CONSTITUTION OF
REPUBLIC OF POLAND FROM 1997?
DO THE SAME-SEX COUPLES HAVE THE RIGHT TO MARRY UNDER THE RULES...
T L
Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland
1. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (furtherŚ UDHR)
adopted in 1948 has become after 70 years a global framework of the legal
regulations on human rights. It started as non-binding “declaration” that
had only “moral meaning”. However, after 70 years from its adoption, it
is regarded as an international customary law binding all member states of
the United Nations (UN) (Baderin Ssenyonjo, 2010, 9-10ś Samar, 2007,
46-47ś van Alstine, 2009, 63-67). UDHR is therefore also a binding legal
act in Poland, as confi rmed by the art. 9 of the Constitution of Republic of
Poland stating thatŚ “The Republic of Poland shall respect international
law binding upon it”. The term “binding international law” means in
this context also written international customary law (Sarnecki, 2016,
324-329).
The aim of this article is to analyse the issue of same-sex marriage
under the rules of UDHR and Polish Constitution. The homosexual
persons probably constitute approximately 5% of the population and in
the western world the right to marry is a postulate of LGBT community as
an element of equalization of the position of homosexual and heterosexual
persons. The lack of the right to marry for the same-sex couples could be
regarded as violation of the dignity of homosexual persons (Samar, 2007,
29-33) and discrimination because of their sexual orientation. The same-

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