How Social Democratic Lithuanian Government Genuflects to Influencer No1, the Catholic Church

  • 2016-07-27
  • Linas Jegelevicius
When recently the bill on cohabitation — forget legalised same-sex pairing, the draft was crafted for 100,000 wedding ring-less heterosexual couples in the country! — was about to reappear on the Social Democrats (SD)-led government’s agenda, few suspected that this time, it would take a single sermon at church to shove it hastily into the lowest drawers for months again. But that was the case: “The archbishop last weekend scolded us for the bill harshly, so I had to turn ear to what the Church’s hierarchy said. I asked to take it away from the government&rsquo...
 
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