Posted on 01/12/2024 11:07:02 AM PST by Salman
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The center-right Greek government’s plans to legalize same-sex civil marriage received a major boost Thursday after the left-wing opposition leader pledged his party’s backing in parliament.
Syriza leader Stefanos Kasselakis said he would instruct his lawmakers to vote for the proposal, although he argued that it didn’t go far enough on parenthood rights.
Kasselakis, who married his male partner in New York in October, has expressed the desire to acquire children through a surrogate mother.
Syriza’s support would practically ensure the draft law’s approval in the 300-seat parliament.
The governing New Democracy party has 158 lawmakers, but about a dozen have voiced objections to the proposal — which has also met with reservation from the country’s influential Orthodox Church. However, the backing of Syriza’s 38 lawmakers should suffice to tip the balance.
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It was just a few years ago that the Greeks would riot on the notion that they had to call gay relationships “married”. I’m talking about the Greek Greeks, not the “Asian” Greeks.
Why does government need to be involved in the sanctity of marriage? They shouldn’t be-—get married in your church of gayness and create a flat tax that everyone pays the same-—end of this perverted problem.
The jokes kinda write themselves?
Which are they? Some of the Greek islands are closer to mainland Asia than they are to mainland Europe, but I don’t think that’s what you’re talking about — unless it’s one island in particular.
Yes let them suffer like us ,LOL
I thought the Greeks were the inventors of Brokeback Mountain Ride ‘em Cowboy sex.
Just think of how much money the Greek government could haul in by making Lesbos an official place for destination weddings.
My bad. It was France that had the riots protesting gay marriage. The Greek riots from years ago where over austerity cuts.
” The center-right Greek government’s plans to legalize same-sex civil marriage ...”
“Conservatives” in every Western coungry failing to “Conserve” anything.
Beware of a Greek in sneakers.
Herd that phrase years ago
The one island in particular I was referring to was Lesbos.
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