Greece on Thursday became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from the influential, socially conservative Greek Church.
A cross-party majority of 176 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament voted late Thursday in favor of the landmark bill drafted by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ’ center-right government. Another 76 rejected the reform while two abstained from the vote and 46 were not present in the house.
Mitsotakis tweeted after the vote that Greece “is proud to become the 16th (European Union) country to legislate marriage equality.”
“This is a milestone for human rights, reflecting today’s Greece — a progressive, and democratic country, passionately committed to European values,” he wrote.
Surprised it was a center right party leading the charge on this one, Europe’s overton window is fucking all over the place right now
On balance against fascism, center right be looking pretty damn liberal.
In Ireland at the time of the public vote, all the centre right parties urged it so it’s not unheard of.
Centre right in Europe really does mean that.
The overton window is politics for mouth breathers. It’s not a real thing.
In Germany, it was similar.
Many years ago, the center party (party name starting with C for christian) under Merkel (together with SPD) initiated a vote and allowed each conservative politician to decide how to vote.
Note that Merkel voted against it, like did half of her party.
Yes. This has 2 sides: She made it possible, but she also blocked it for a decade.
welcome to the club, greece 🏳️🌈
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I’m sad to hear there are still orthodox christian countries, I hope they fix that soon.
