9 minutes agoGreece Legalises Same-Sex Marriages
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(2 years ago)Greece legalized the marriage of the same gender and equal parental rights for couples of the same sex. This decision was made Thursday, through a bill that has split Greek society and drew fierce opposition from the country's powerful Orthodox Church. Although Greece became 16th [...]
Although Greece became the 16th European Union to allow same-sex marriage, it is the first Orthodox Christian country to adopt such a law. The country expanded its civil partnership for couples of the same sex in 2015, but had failed to expand equal parental rights, NYTimes reports.
The prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, had pledged to approve the new measures following his overwhelming re-election last year. He told his cabinet last month that the same sex marriage was an issue of equal rights, noted that similar legislation was in force in more than 30 other countries and said there should be no “second-class citizens” or “children of a smaller”. God. ”
