EU to Romania: How dare you say marriage is only between man and woman!
by Andrew Tettenborn, Rebel Priest:
Just for a moment forget, if you will, Poland and Hungary and their troubles with the ever-more-progressive western bloc of the European Union. The latest recruit to the Euro-awkward squad is Romania.
The casus belli this time is a proposal to amend Article 48 of the Romanian constitution to do what would not have raised an eyebrow twenty years ago: define marriage explicitly as a union between a man and a woman. The arguments around it show nicely the workings of the European great and good, both in the EU and outside it.
Last week, Romanian Senators voted 107-13 to approve a law that would pave the way for the constitution to be changed to explicitly state that marriage is a union of a man and a woman. The constitution currently states that marriage is a union between “spouses.” A senator for the ruling Social Democratic Party, Serban Nicolae, said the vote was on religious grounds: “we’ve been a Christian nation for 2,000 years.”