Romania’s top court approves initiative to define marriage as between man and woman
A move to enshrine marriage in the Romanian constitution as a lifelong partnership between a man and woman moved closer to reality with the approval of the country’s Constitutional Court. The initiative, if successful, would amend Article 48 of the Constitution, which currently states, “The family is founded on the freely consented marriage of the spouses, their full equality, as well as the right and duty of the parents to ensure the upbringing, education and instruction of their children.” The initiative would replace “spouses” with “a man and a woman.” In May, the Coalition for the Family announced it had gathered more than three million signatures in favor of the amendment, six times what the constitution requires. The coalition’s Mihai Gheorghiu said at the time that the surplus would be “a signal, a confession, a warning” to political and government leaders. Once the coalition turned in its signatures, the Constitutional Court had to decide if the objective was cons...
