51.   Gay rights activists are pushing for a law that would grant homosexual couples housing and health benefits enjoyed by married heterosexual couples.

52.   Homosexual couples also are not allowed to adopt children, and lesbian women cannot have test tube babies.

53.   Homosexual couples are currently before the courts in Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec asking for the right to be legally married.

54.   Homosexual couples can transmit inheritances in a private act in front of a notary, it added.

55.   Homosexual couples will still be forbidden to have progeny via artificial procreation, Jospin said.

56.   Homosexual couples will still be forbidden to have children through artificial procreation, Jospin said.

57.   Known as PACS, it provides fiscal and social advantages to homosexual couples and unwed heterosexual couples.

58.   Lawmakers have moved to make Mississippi the second state in the nation with a law banning homosexual couples from adopting children.

59.   Northeastern Catalonia region, however, recently passed a law recognizing homosexual couples but barring them from adopting children or receiving inheritance benefits.

60.   Opponents to same-sex unions argue the church should not condone homosexual couples because their lifestyles conflict with biblical principles.