the greeks had pansexual relationships long before there even was a church.
I’m not sure bringing up classical pederasty, a tradition that largely ended well before Christianity took over btw, is the route to take on this particular issue.
It is important to note that this government was the party that prevented the previous leftist government from making gay marriage legal(they could only get gay civil union passed). So there is no actual political opposition, they are the opposition but decided that making gay marriage legal deprives a strong weapon from the opposition.
hell yeah
around the issue of raising children, claiming they are being treated as “accessories” and “companion pets” for gay couples.
How does that differ to hetero couples?
It doesn’t. That’s just pure bigotry.
Their projections say a lot about their families.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The statement comes after the Church’s governing Holy Synod issued a 1,500-word opinion late Wednesday, expressing strong opposition to the proposal.
The Church’s main argument centered around the issue of raising children, claiming they are being treated as “accessories” and “companion pets” for gay couples.
“Children are not companion pets for those who wish to feel like a guardian, and are not ‘accessories’ to formalize or make same-sex cohabitation socially acceptable,” it added.
Opinion polls suggest Greeks are evenly divided on the issue of same-sex marriage, but opposed to extending full parental rights to gay couples.
Same-sex marriage is legal in 34 countries globally, according to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, a U.S. association created to monitor discrimination against LGBTQ+ people.
The country’s left-wing opposition leader, Stefanos Kasselakis, married his male partner in New York in October, several weeks after winning a party leadership election.
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