Approaching Sodom > Woke UK University gets smack upside the head - JK Rowling; Japan's High Courts closing in on Sodom

 

Freedom of Speech making a comeback in UK

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'The University of Sussex is facing a record £585,000 fine from England's higher education regulator over alleged failures to uphold free speech and academic freedom. The Office for Students found "significant and serious breaches" at the university."'

University set to be issued with record fine after failing to protect free speech

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The LGBTQ lobby is another army in the hybrid War against Christianity. 

Japan's Osaka High Court rules country's same-sex marriage ban 'unconstitutional'

By Sheri Walsh

Japan's Osaka High Court ruled Tuesday that the country’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. The court's ruling is the fifth decision to call Japan's same-sex marriage ban a violation of the country's constitution. It comes after similar rulings in the high courts of Tokyo, Sapporo, Fukuoka and Nagoya. File Photo by Jiji Press Japan/EPA-EFE

March 25 (UPI) -- Japan's Osaka High Court ruled Tuesday that the country's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.

The court's ruling is the fifth decision to call Japan's same-sex marriage ban a violation of the country's constitution following similar rulings in the high courts of Sapporo, Tokyo, Fukuoka and Nagoya.

Presiding Judge Kumiko Honda of the Osaka High Court ruled Tuesday in favor of three same-sex couples who filed a lawsuit against the government, seeking 6 million yen -- or $39,900 -- in compensation.

While Honda dismissed the couples' appeal for compensation, he reversed Osaka District Court's prior ruling that Japan's Civil Code and Family Register Act limit marriage to heterosexual couples.

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Honda ruled Tuesday that a ban of same-sex marriage violates the right to equality in Article 14 of the Constitution of Japan, which states: "All of the people are equal under the law and there shall be no discrimination in political, economic or social relations because of race, creed, sex, social status or family origin."

So, does that mean paedophiles, transgenders, and rapists have full rights in Japan.

The court also ruled that the marriage ban violates Article 24, which states laws involving family "shall be enacted from the standpoint of individual dignity and the essential equality of the sexes."

While the Osaka District Court based its decision on protecting the relationships of men and women to bring children into the world, the plaintiffs argued "there are heterosexual couples who don't intend to have children."

Japan is currently the only International Group of Seven country that does not recognize same-sex marriage. Other G7 countries have encouraged Japan to fight discrimination and uphold protections for sexual and gender minorities.

Some local governments in Japan have granted "partnership certificates" to same-sex couples, but those do not provide the same married rights of spousal visits, parental recognition or inheritance.

"What should be questioned is the rationality in excluding same-sex couples from the marriage system," the plaintiffs argued. "Legalizing gay marriage would make more people happy, while it would make no one unhappy."

Actually, it would make God unhappy! But then, you don't believe in God in Japan anyway. This is another step back away from God and toward Sodom. Have you read about Sodom? You should; it's coming again.

Approaching Sodom > Greece - 1st Orthodox Christian country to embrace Sodom and Gomorrah

 

Greece legalizes same-sex marriage, 

1st Orthodox Christian country to do so

By Nicholas Paphitis  The Associated Press

Posted February 15, 2024 3:29 pm

 Updated February 16, 2024 4:52 pm

 3 min read

WATCH: Greece became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage on Thursday, despite opposition from the influential, socially conservative Greek Church. However, some Greeks expressed mixed feelings after

the vote by parliament paved the way for same-sex civil marriage.

Greece on Thursday became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from the influential, socially conservative Greek Church.

A cross-party majority of 176 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament voted late Thursday in favor of the landmark bill drafted by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ‘ center-right government. Another 76 rejected the reform while two abstained from the vote and 46 were not present in the house.

Mitsotakis tweeted after the vote that Greece “is proud to become the 16th (European Union) country to legislate marriage equality.”

“This is a milestone for human rights, reflecting today’s Greece — a progressive, and democratic country, passionately committed to European values,” he wrote.

He forgot the include 'godless'! While 80-90% of Greeks are Greek Orthodox, it would appear that Greek Orthodox has become more of a social club than a Christian Church.

Opinion polls suggest that most Greeks support the proposed reform by a narrow margin, and the issue has failed to trigger deep divisions in a country more worried about the high cost of living.

The bill was backed by four left-wing parties, including the main opposition Syriza.

“This law doesn’t solve every problem, but it is a beginning,” said Spiros Bibilas, a lawmaker from the small left-wing Passage to Freedom party, who is openly gay.

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It was approved despite several majority and left-wing lawmakers abstaining or voting against the reform. Three small far-right parties and the Stalinist-rooted Communist Party rejected the draft law from the start of the two-day debate.

Supporters, waving rainbow banners, and opponents of the bill, holding religious icons and praying, held separate small, peaceful gatherings outside parliament Thursday.

“People who have been invisible will finally be made visible around us. And with them, many children (will) finally find their rightful place,” Mitsotakis told lawmakers ahead of the evening vote.

“Both parents of same-sex couples do not yet have the same legal opportunities to provide their children with what they need,” he added. “To be able to pick them up from school, to be able to travel, to go to the doctor, or take them to the hospital. … That is what we are fixing.”

The bill confers full parental rights on married same-sex partners with children. But it precludes gay couples from parenthood through surrogate mothers in Greece — an option currently available to women who can’t have children for health reasons.

Maria Syrengela, a lawmaker from the governing New Democracy, or ND, said the reform redresses a long-standing injustice for same-sex couples and their children.

“And let’s reflect on what these people have been through, spending so many years in the shadows, entangled in bureaucratic procedures,” she said.

Dissidents among the governing party included former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, from ND’s conservative wing.

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“Same-sex marriage is not a human right … and it’s not an international obligation for our country,” he told parliament. “Children have a right to have parents from both sexes.”

Polls show that while most Greeks agree to same-sex weddings they also reject extending parenthood through surrogacy to male couples. Same-sex civil partnerships have been allowed in Greece since 2015. But that only conferred legal guardianship to the biological parents of children in those relationships, leaving their partners in a bureaucratic limbo.

The main opposition to the new bill has come from the traditionalist Church of Greece — which also disapproves of heterosexual civil marriage.

Church officials have centered their criticism on the bill’s implications for traditional family values, and argue that potential legal challenges could lead to a future extension of surrogacy rights to gay couples.

Church supporters and conservative organizations have staged small protests against the proposed law.

Far-right lawmaker Vassilis Stigas, head of the small Spartans party, described the legislation Thursday as “sick” and claimed that its adoption would “open the gates of Hell and perversion.”

Politically, the same-sex marriage law is not expected to harm Mitsotakis’ government, which won easy re-election last year after capturing much of the centrist vote.

A stronger challenge comes from ongoing protests by farmers angry at high production costs, and intense opposition from many students to the planned scrapping of a state monopoly on university education.

Nevertheless, parliament is expected to approve the university bill later this month, and opinion polls indicate that most Greeks support it.

‘Resisting Deviation’: Thousands Protest Gay Unions, Adoptions in Rome

People attend a rally against same-sex unions and gay adoption in Rome, Italy January 30, 2016. © Remo Casilli / Reuters

Tens of thousands took to the streets of Rome to demand that the Italian government give up on a law that would provide gay couples legal recognition and limited adoption rights.

The large crowd, which included Catholic priests, gathered at the Circus Maximus venue in the center of the Italian capital on Saturday.

People attend a rally against same-sex unions and gay adoption in Rome, Italy January 30, 2016. © Remo Casilli / Reuters

The protesters were carrying Italy’s national flags and banners, reading: “No to civil unions,” AP reported.

Protesters hold a banner reading "It is wrong even if it becomes law" during a rally against same-sex unions and gay adoption in Rome, Italy January 30, 2016. © Remo Casilli / Reuters

The so-called “Family Day” protest was staged under the motto: “To protect families and children.”

Protesters hold signs reading "It is wrong even if it becomes law" during a rally against same-sex unions and gay adoption in Rome, Italy January 30, 2016. © Remo Casilli / Reuters

“Italy is one of the few western countries that is still resisting this deviation,” Massimo Gandolfini, the organizer of demonstration, told Sky Tg24.

Priests shout slogans during a rally against same-sex unions and gay adoption in Rome, Italy January 30, 2016.
© Remo Casilli / Reuters

Premier Matteo Renzi’s coalition government plans to legalize same-sex civil unions and allow homosexuals to adopt the biological children of their partners. 

People attend a rally against same-sex unions and gay adoption in Rome, Italy January 30, 2016. © Remo Casilli / Reuters

However, there’s little unity on the gay rights issue in the government, with some ministers openly opposing the initiative.

Italy’s interior minister, Angelino Alfano, expressed “full adherence” to the ideas of the participants of the “Family Day” rally.

Environment minister Gian Luca Galletti was among those attending the Rome protest, telling Sky that her “values are not negotiable.”