The parliamentary discussions of the amendment to the Lithuanian Constitution that would tie the legal definition of a family to marriage and parenthood were bogged down in Seimas procedures on Thursday.
The MPs rejected the position of the main committee on the matter — the Committee on Legal Affairs — to vote down the amendment. The stance was supported by merely 29 of Lithuania's 141 parliamentarians, 54 were against and nine abstained.
Social Democratic MP Algirdas Sysas who presided over the meeting said that the issue wou...
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