Greece has become the first Orthodox Christian country to legalise same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from church officials.
A cross-party majority of 176 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament voted late on Thursday in favour of the bill drafted by the centre-right government of the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Another 76 rejected the reform while two abstained from the vote and 46 were not present for the vote.
The new law recognises parental rights for same-sex couples, but will not allow gay men to acquire biological children through surrogate mothers in Greece.
That’s monumental progress, but of course there’s still work to be done.
Here’s to all the legal big fat gay Greek weddings 🥳🏳️🌈
And in before “good job greek conservative government for making gay marriage possible”. The main opposition to gay marriage was the current government and even though it was their own bill, half of their mps voted against/abstained.
The government just wanted to disarm the opposition and knew that even though most of their voters opposed it, in the long run(once old people die), the majority of voters will support gay marriage.
And if they keep opposing it, it will have significant political repercussions, especially since the main opposition party just elected a gay leader. Also our prime minister is a CIA asset(thatcher conservative, not maga conservative), so that works too.
The bill passed only because most of the opposition voted for it(except for the communists and nazis).
Ah, so like the Tories in the UK then.
Same sex marriage passed under their watch, and they take the credit for it, even though most of their MPs voted against it.
Based and AlexanderXHephaestion pilled.
Hell yeah. As a queer guy from the balkans this is extremely nice to see.
Greece sanctifies doing it greek.
The lesbian jokes write themselves
If they’re women.
Just a reminder: the church heavily opposed this
Oh boy are they late. Same sex marriage is so last week. Don’t they know that sex isn’t even real anymore?
What are you even on about? Most countries still have no legal process for same sex marriages.
