The exclusion of opposite-sex couples from registered partnerships is constitutionally valid. Heterosexuals are not a disadvantaged group and so difference in treatment need not be justified by particularly serious reasons.
B-1405/10, Constitutional Court of Austria (22 September 2011) (Full text of judgment in German, PDF)
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