Slovenia: same-sex “marriage” law reversed

By J.C. von Krempach, J.D. | December 22, 2015

No, despite of what politicians and mass-media would have you believe, the legal recognition of same-sex “marriages” is neither inevitable nor irreversible. On the contrary: where people are allowed to have a say, their message is that they don’t see a need for homo-“marriages”.

Contrary to the United States, where five Supreme Court Justices have introduced same-sex “marriage” par ordre du mufti, in Slovenia it was the people who had the last word.

Already in 2012 an attempt by the country’s political caste to treat same-sex couples as “families” was stopped by a popular referendum that prevented the law from entering into force. And what was the politicians’ reaction to this? They changed the rules for referendums, introducing a new quorum that would make it more difficult to overturn a law adopted by the National Assembly. Then they adopted a new bill, this time openly proposing the full legal recognition of “marriages” between persons of the same sex.

But on last Sunday, civil society hit back – and forcefully. In a referendum that both Government and the National Assembly had desperately sought to prevent from taking place (and which finally was allowed to be held thanks only to a narrow 5-4 decision of the country’s Constitutional Court), a whopping 63% of participants voted against the re-definition of marriage, thus reversing the law on same-sex “marriage” that the National Assembly had adopted in March 2015.

This will give an extra boost to the upcoming European citizens’ initiative Mum Dad & Kids, whose aim it is to prevent the EU and its institutions from imposing homo-“marriage” on Member States.

In the meantime the homo-lobby hopes that the country’s politicians will again change the rules for popular referendums, or maybe abolish them altogether, before the launch their next attempt to re-define marriage.

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