{"id":2296,"date":"2015-12-27T09:15:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T15:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2015-12-27T09:15:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T15:15:54","slug":"greece-approves-slovenians-reject-same-sex-union-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2296","title":{"rendered":"Greece approves, Slovenians reject same-sex union initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n

There were mixed results for referendums in the last week that sought to expand same-sex union rights to European countries.<\/p>\n

In Greece, the parliament voted 193 to 56 in favor of granting civil union rights to same-sex couples. This measure was strenuously opposed by the Orthodox Church. Via Advocate.com:<\/a><\/p>\n

Greece is one of the last European Union states to legalize civil unions. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2012 that the country discriminated against same-sex couples by denying them tax, pension and inheritance rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the other hand, though, Slovenian citizens?voted to repeal that country’s marriage equality law that the legislature had enacted in March.?Via CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Just over 63% of voters in Sunday’s referendum rejected the bill redefining marriage as a union between two consenting adults, rather than expressly between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n

There was a relatively low rate of participation, with just over 36% of eligible voters turning out, Slovenia’s Government Communication Office said.<\/p>\n

The defeat of the bill, which would have established full legal equality between heterosexual and same-sex marriage, was seen as a victory for conservatives backed by the Catholic Church, the dominant religious group in the former Yugoslav republic of about 2 million people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By John Mack Freeman There were mixed results for referendums in the last week that sought to expand same-sex union rights to European countries. In Greece, the parliament voted 193 to 56 in favor of granting civil union rights to same-sex couples. This measure was strenuously opposed by the Orthodox Church. Via Advocate.com: Greece is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[222,536,101,535],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-europe","tag-greece","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-slovenia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}