3 hours agoSwitzerland votes in referendum on same-gender marriage
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Swiss voters will decide on Sunday whether to allow couples of the same gender to marry and enjoy the same rights as heterosexual marriage partners, following a bitter referendum campaign in one of the last Western European countries where homosexual marriages are still banned. Government and parliament approved marriage for [...]
The government and parliament approved marriage for couples of the same gender last year, allowing them to adopt children without parents, simplifying their citizenship for foreign mates, etc. But the move was immediately challenged by a three-way of nationalist and conservative Christian parties, which opposed expanding the rights of couples of the same gender, reports The Guardian.
Under the Swiss constitution, any parliamentary decision could be submitted to a referendum if at least 50,000 citizens seek it.
Opposers of the new law, many of them supporters of the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC), have used fierce posters of crying babies, and warning that the “law will kill father”.
