The government welcomed the passage of the bill on same-sex marriage on Thursday with feelings of relief and satisfaction and wants to put the controversy it created behind it.
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Niko Efstathiou, an Athens-based journalist and author who has reported extensively on the marriage equality bill, joins Thanos Davelis to look at Greece’s approval of the landmark bill, and the ripple effects it is having beyond the country’s borders.
Following the release of Netflix’s new production about Alexander the Great, posts on social media said the entertainment company fabricated a same-sex storyline for the ancient Greek ruler. But the posts are missing the context that sexual fluidity was the norm in Ancient Greece, according to historians, who say it is likely Alexander had relationships with men.
L.D., aged 32, gave birth to twins by caesarean section in September. The midwives did not place the newborns on her chest, as is customary. There were other arms waiting for them with anxiety, love and emotion, a few floors above.
Establishing equal rights in political marriage is an important step in our politics and social progress.
Only hours after the Greek Parliament passed a bill on marriage equality on Thursday night, the first marriage notice of a same-sex couple, comprising two male partners from the Nea Smyrni suburb of Athens, was published in the Ta Nea newspaper on Friday.
Twenty-eight foreign embassies accredited to Greece have jointly issued a statement applauding the enactment of legislation granting equal marriage rights to same-sex couples.
After a two-day parliamentary debate that began on Valentine’s Day, and following an occasionally fired-up political discussion that lasted for months, Greece has finally approved a landmark bill that legalizes same-sex marriage and grants adoption rights to same-sex couples.
Greece has become the first majority-Orthodox Christian nation to legalize same-sex marriage under civil law. At least for the near future, it will almost certainly be the only one.
Greece’s 300-member Parliament approved the bill granting same-sex couples equal rights in marriage in a roll call vote on Thursday night. The reform extends full parental rights to gay couples but will not allow for medically assisted reproduction through a surrogate.
The Greek Parliament has voted a bill legalizing same-sex marriage by a wide margin.
Archbishop Ieronymos, the leader of the Orthodox Church of Greece, supposedly took a relatively soft stance on the issue of same-sex marriage.
Marriage equality was a matter of debate as early as 1960 in the Netherlands. It became law in 2001. At the time, the country was the first in the world to legalize marriage for same-sex couples.
Former New Democracy prime minister Antonis Samaras vehemently criticized the government’s proposed legislation on same-sex couples during a speech preceding Thursday’s cross-party vote on the bill.
Greece’s main opposition party SYRIZA said it will vote in favor of a government bill allowing same-sex couples to marry, noting however that the legislation is “incomplete”. “SYRIZA’s parliamentary group has been ready for a long time to take this step,” spokesman Sokratis Famellos told the government and wondered if the Conservatives are equally ready, […]
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that a bill granting same-sex couples equal rights in marriage would make their families “visible.”
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