Thousands of protesters turned out to demonstrate against a proposed same-sex civil partnerships bill that members of Lithuania s Parliament are anticipated to debate next month.
The May 15 event, dubbed the family defense march, brought out an estimated 10,000 people to the streets of Vilnius, Lithuania s capital, local police reported.
Demonstrators risked arrest and fines for going against a ban on public gatherings in response to a surge of COVID infections in order to express their belief that same-sex unions are a threat to traditional family values in the Roman Catholic-majority country.
The bill, proposed by Tomas Vytautas Raskevicius, a gay Member of Parliament, is based on the country s Constitutional Court affirming that the definition of family is not restricted to different-sex couples, according to the Lithuania report of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association s 2021 Rainbow Map and Index published May 17.
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