Posted on 10/02/2018 6:24:06 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Gay bar owner and novelist Alex Andronic fears a referendum this weekend in Romania that aims to prevent same sex couples ever securing the right to marry not only darkens his future, it will also stir an intolerable level of hate and discrimination.
Romania does not allow marriage or civil partnerships for same sex couples. Nonetheless, the country will vote on whether to narrow the constitutional definition of marriage from a union of spouses to one between a man and a woman.
The referendum, which needs a 30 percent turnout rate was brought by a civil society group called the Coalition for the Family, which said the gender-neutral term “spouse” could see gay couples win the right to marry in the future. It gathered 3 million signatures to generate the vote. […]
Most EU countries allow either same sex marriages or civil partnerships, but Romania, whose populist government of Social Democrats and a junior coalition partner endorsed the vote, does not even recognize those performed abroad. …
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No. It stirs love. Normal love.
Watch leftists put Romania on their $bama list.
Even worse, they’ll be hammering that country’s Social Democrats for going away from socialism (oh noes).
Is Romania the last sane country in the world?
They’ve got the gypsies.
There is no such thing as gay marriage.
Marriage is a union between man and woman to produce offspring no more, no less.
It is no more “hate” than to say that “the sky is blue”is hate speech to the color red.
Merely to produce offspring?
Think about why it was a bad thing for Abraham to have Ishmael with Hagar.
Yes - to produce offspring.
There’s no reason for society to govern/regulate emotional, platonic and sexual relationships otherwise.
I don’t know Romanian law, but I have trouble believing marriage as a “right”.
It shouldn’t be a “right” in terms of the government rendering it as a positive liberty, no.
Good to know there's a little bit of sanity left in Romania.
Stalin certainly was OK in regulating marriages for offspring production.
But marriage is one of those relationships that literally transcends the physical plane. It’s not merely for reproduction. Certainly the government needs to stay out of it; but the notion of same-sex “marriage” is an attack on that relationship, as well as freedom of religion, and the government ought to defend it in that case.
“I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman”
- BH Obama, 2008
- HR Clinton, 2008
Apparently the only thing that seperates us deplorables from the enlightened ones is our inability to change our values at the drop of a hat.
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