2024-02-16 19:27:43
Today, Friday, the entire foreign press is reporting on last night’s approval by Parliament of the bill for same-sex couples, which is a “milestone” for human rights in our country, while making Greece the 16th country in the EU to enshrine equality in civil marriage , regardless of gender.
“Greece on Thursday became the first majority Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex marriage – a watershed moment for the country’s LGBTI community,” reports the Washington Post. “The Greek Prime Minister said on social media that Greece is ‘proud to become the 16th EU country to legislate marriage equality.’ He called this step a milestone for human rights, reflecting today’s Greece – a progressive, democratic country passionately committed to European values,” the newspaper adds.
“Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had promised to pass the new measures after his sweeping re-election last year,” writes the New York Times. “He told the Cabinet last month that same-sex marriage was an equal rights issue, noted that similar legislation was in place in more than 30 other countries and said there should be no ‘second-class citizens’ or ‘children of an inferior God. “”.
“Greece became the first Orthodox country to legalize same-sex marriage”, is the central theme in the Guardian.
In a rare show of parliamentary consensus, 176 MPs from across the political spectrum voted in favor of the bill on Thursday, the British media reports.
CNN is talking about a “landmark victory for human rights in Greece”, noting that the approval of the bill makes Greece “the first country with a majority of Orthodox Christians to establish marriage equality for all”.
Preparing for the vote was an uphill battle, he adds. “Fifteen of the 27 members of the European Union have already legalized same-sex marriage and Mitsotakis, bolstered by a recent news [κυβερνητική] mandate, he insisted on passing the bill, signaling his intention to further align his government with the more progressive powers of the EU.
“Greece legalizes same-sex marriage in landmark change” is the Reuters headline.
Greece’s parliament on Thursday approved a bill allowing civil marriage between same-sex couples, a landmark victory for LGBT rights advocates that was greeted with cheers from onlookers in parliament and dozens gathered on the streets of Athens. The law gives same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children and comes after decades of campaigning by the LGBT community in the socially conservative country.
Greece extends marriage and adoption rights to same-sex couples in a historic parliamentary vote, Time magazine reports.
In France, Le Monde also notes that our country is the first Orthodox country “to legalize same-sex civil marriage.”
“On the evening of Thursday, February 15, the Greek parliament approved with a large majority the bill on marriage and procreation for same-sex couples – a major social reform in the face of fierce opposition from the Orthodox Church,” reports the French newspaper.
“Greece has so far lagged behind some of its European neighbors, mainly because of the opposition of the Church. It is the first country in south-east Europe to enshrine marriage equality,” writes BBC News.
Greece on Thursday became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from the socially conservative Greek Church, the Associated Press reports. A cross-party majority of 176 MPs in the 300-seat parliament late on Thursday voted in favor of the landmark bill drafted by the centre-right government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, reports say.
Once it becomes law, Greece will become the 37th country in the world and the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize adoption by same-sex families, writes the news site euronews, while Politico in turn speaks of a “bill- landmark”.