In response to the police, about 4,000 folks responded to the invitation of Orthodox spiritual teams. They gathered within the central Syntagma Sq., waving Greek flags, carrying crosses and placards opposing same-sex parenthood.
“Hold your arms off the kids,” chanted the gang, which included a number of clergymen and the chief of the far-right Niki occasion, Dimitris Natsios.
Grigorios Grikorakis, 57, from Florina in northern Greece, got here holding an icon of the Virgin Mary.
He mentioned the reform was “towards regular households”.
“Christ and the Gospel say that the household is man, lady and youngsters,” he advised the AFP information company.
The Greek Orthodox Church, which has shut ties to many authorities MPs, mentioned it was completely against the reform, saying it condemned kids to develop up in an “setting of confusion”.
Protester Efrosini, a pensioner from Athens, mentioned same-sex {couples} already had rights underneath the 2015 civil union reform.
Even Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who personally helps the invoice, emphasised that the adjustments would solely profit “a number of kids and {couples}”.
The invoice may cut up Mitsotakis’ conservative New Democracy occasion, with dozens of the occasion’s 158 lawmakers prone to oppose it or abstain.
However it’s prone to be handed with the assist of the principle opposition occasion Syriza, whose chief Stefanos Kasselakis is homosexual, the socialist PASOK occasion and different smaller events.
For same-sex {couples}, guardianship rights are at present solely granted to the kid’s organic father or mom, leaving their companions in authorized limbo.
Ok. Micotakis mentioned that surrogacy will proceed to be prohibited for same-sex {couples}.
Public opinion polls present {that a} majority of Greeks assist same-sex marriage however oppose surrogacy.
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2024-05-14 10:31:54