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Lithuania rejects legalization of same-sex ‘marriage’

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The Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) rejected a proposal last week for legalization of same-sex partnerships put forth mostly by members of the liberal faction. Twenty-nine members of Seimas voted in support for the legalization of same-sex partnerships, 59 voted against, and 20 abstained from voting. During the first stage of legislation, abstaining is essentially equivalent to voting against the project because it must collect the majority of supporting votes. Nine conservatives and nine social democrats expressed support for the legalization of partnerships, as did eight liberals and three non-attached members. No member of the parliament from the factions of ruling Farmers and Greens Union, Order and Justice , and Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania supported the proposal for partnerships. The project for same-sex partnerships was not returned for revision and was rejected completely. Sixty-four members of Seimas voted against the project being returned for revision...

Three Lithuanian TV stations refuse ad from gay activist group

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English: A man with a rainbow flag at the Gay Sin  parade in New York City, 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A video produced for Lithuanian television stations by homosexual activists is being investigated by an ethics watchdog after TV three different TV stations refused to air it. “The video contains elements that need to be evaluated by experts. It will happen not earlier than September,” Zita Zamzickienė, Lithuanian Journalistic Ethics Inspector, said in a statement to Baltic News Service (BNS). The video spot was created by the Lithuanian Gay League, the country’s leading homosexualist lobby group, affiliated with the politically powerful ILGA Europe . BNS reports that three major television stations, LNK, TV3 and Lietuvos Ryto TV , have refused the ad under concerns that it may violate the Law on the Protection of Minors Against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information that prohibits promotion of homosexuality. TV3 asked the office of the ethics inspector...

Beware of ‘Trojan Horse’ laws from EU pushing ‘gender’ homosexual ideologies

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The recently appointed archbishop of Vilnius , Gintaras Grušas told the country’s parliament to beware of laws imposed by the European Union that act as a “ Trojan Horse ” to undermine the hard-won Lithuanian independence and the family by pushing “gender” ideologies. Archbishop Grušas said at a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union , “We are seeing more and more legal products with the European trademark that destroy the [country’s] foundations.” “By attempting to penetrate into our legal system via the legal Trojan horses , they are, first of all, doing everything to undermine the institution of the family – the core of Lithuania, which our Constitution presents as the basis of our society and nation.” “This is done,” he said, “by pushing conventions and gender declarations, which erase the difference between a man and a woman, between a father and a mother and quietly introducing the concepts of genderism.” He warned that the municipal gove...