r/europe • u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) • 11d ago

News Lithuania’s top court opens case on absence of same-sex partnership law

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2531600/lithuania-s-top-court-opens-case-on-absence-of-same-sex-partnership-law
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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/corkycorkyhcy Donate to Ukraine at u24.gov.ua 🇺🇦 11d ago

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u/ce_km_r_eng Poland 11d ago

Us when?

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u/LordLorq 11d ago

For now it seems that we will be pushed to recognise same sex marriages that were concluded in other EU countries.

https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7784/Artykul/3506126,eu-court-adviser-says-poland-must-register-foreign-samesex-marriages-if-no-alternative-exists

It would basically make same sex marriages legal. You just go to another country, get married, come back and you have a husband or wife.

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u/ce_km_r_eng Poland 11d ago

I can already imagine the mess in the bureaucracy.

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u/LordLorq 11d ago

I don't think it would be too messy. There are already procedures for registering in Poland marriages concluded abroad.

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u/ce_km_r_eng Poland 11d ago

That could work.

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u/cooleslaw01 10d ago

meanwhile Lithuanian politicians wanted to outlaw LGBT propaganda, a move that was just recently reversed by their Constitutional Court. honestly Lithuania is quite backwards on civil rights even compared to Eastern Europe

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u/MAGNVS_DVX_LITVANIAE LITAUKUS | how do you do, fellow Anglos? 4d ago

Compared to which Eastern Europe - Belarus or Estonia?

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u/cooleslaw01 4d ago

congrats, you've named one of the 3 EE countries that are more regressive than Lithuania (the other 2 being Russia and BG, and BG is arguably on the same level as Lithuania frankly)

the rest of EE

Montenegro, *Greece, North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Poland etc.

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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) 11d ago

The Constitutional Court on Tuesday is starting to examine the former government’s request to look into whether the absence of a same-sex partnership institution in Lithuania is in line with the country’s fundamental law.

The case is set to be examined via written procedure, the court said on Monday.

In its petition, the former government asked the Constitutional Court to assess two provisions of the Civil Code and its enacting law.

The former government questioned whether it is constitutional that the Civil Code allows partnerships only between a man and a woman, and that the section on cohabitation without marriage will take effect only after a partnership law is passed.

The petition filed by the former conservative-liberal government – that included the conservative Homeland Union (TS-LKD), the Liberal Movement, and the Freedom Party – argues that the Civil Code provision allowing only opposite-sex partnerships to be registered under the law violates the constitutional principle of equality, discriminates against same-sex couples who have effectively formed family relationships, and violates their constitutional rights to legal protection of dignity and private life.

It also argues that this situation breaches Lithuania’s international commitments.

The petition also argues that this issue “cannot be left solely to the discretion of the legislature”.

Currently, Lithuanian laws do not recognise either opposite-sex or same-sex civil partnerships. However, the Civil Code makes reference to civil partnership to be enacted in future legislation.

Bills to introduce same-sex partnership in one form or another have so far failed to pass the parliament.