Party calls for constitutional ban on gay marriage

Sep 21, 2005
By Aaron Eglitis

RIGA - Lawmakers have taken the first step toward a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage when they voted to have a proposed amendment worked out on the committee level.Latvia's First Party, the religiously oriented political group that counts a number of ministers in its ranks, introduced the proposal, which restricts marriage to heterosexual couples.The proposal won 55 votes on Sept. 15, with only one MP voting against and the rest abstaining or absent from the proceedings. In order to becom ...

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