Costa Blanca
Dénia judge told again she must carry out the marriage of two British gay men
By h.b.
Jun 5, 2008 - 8:23 PM

The Government is once again forcing the Dénia judge, Laura Alabau to carry out the wedding for two gay British men which she refused to do last March.

Judicial sources told the Información newspaper that the General Direction of the Registry has allowed the appeal presented to it by the Alicante Prosecutors’ Office against the Magistrate, and ruled that there is no legal impediment to stop the marriage being carried out.

Laura Alabau had claimed that she could not carry out the wedding as gay marriage does not exist in the United Kingdom.
She has already been fined for criticising an earlier resolution which obliged her to carry out gay marriages, and was the first magistrate in Spain to make an appeal to the Constitutional Court against homosexual marriage, after refusing to marry a couple of lesbians. That was thrown out on the basis that the judge was not competent to place the claim.

Another similar claim to the Constitutional Court presented by the opposition Partido Popular remains pending.