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| Slovakia Mulls Constitutional Ban on Same-Sex Marriage |
| 2014-02-26 |
| [An Nahar] Slovakia's leftist prime minister said Tuesday he was ready to back a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between man and woman, effectively closing the door to same-sex marriage. The opposition Christian Democrats and other center-right parties drafted the amendment that will need support from Prime Minister Robert Fico Smer's social democrats for the two-thirds majority required to change the constitution. "Smer is willing to support the amendment in exchange for the opposition's support for an amendment introducing changes in the judicial system," Fico told news hounds in Bratislava. "The marriage amendment will not bring about any drastic changes, it only seals in the constitution what is already defined by law," said Fico, whose Smer is a member of the traditionally liberal Party of European Socialists group in the European Parliament. The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's newest member Croatia outlawed same-sex marriage in a referendum last year, triggering a similar constitutional amendment. Slovak law defines marriage as a "union between a man and a woman". |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 ..oh well, there goes the UN cocktail party circuit invites.. |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-02-26 17:01 |