CIVIL INICIATIVE: English

Deli z ostalimi

Objectives:

1. Preservation of a marriage that would be legally defined as a community of a man and a woman, with a purpose to raise a family.
2. Preservation of a family as a community of father, mother and children, which enjoys a special protection for the benefits of the children.
3. Respect of the children’s rights to be accepted in a foster care or adopted into a community of a man and a woman.
4. Governmental help for families in Slovenia, especially for those facing poverty due to financial crisis.

Why is the family a community of a man, a woman and children?

• A relationship of a man and a woman is the only one that enables survival. It is the most natural form of cohabitation.
• A family of mother and father gives children the most suitable surroundings for their holistic development. According to psychology and psychoanalysis children need a mother and a father for a healthy development.

Why our NO to homosexual marriages and adoption?

• With the equalization of the homosexual partnership and marriage, marriage becomes devaluated because one of its most important dimensions is taken away: conception and birth.
• If homosexual marriages and classic marriages are treated equally, this implies discrimination of classic marriage and family.
• Homosexuality is not yet thoroughly researched. Homosexual adoption rights would therefore represent a social experiment on children.
• Children adopted by the homosexuals would be exposed to greater health and social risks (e.g., violence, divorces among gays and lesbians are far more common, e.g. among gays 50% and among lesbians 167% more common than among heterosexuals).
• It is a right of a child who lost their parents to be adopted into a healthy family. Questioning the rights of couples (either heterosexual or homosexual) is therefore not appropriate in this context because a child is not a right and not an object.

Why is the current legal proposal not suitable?

• Proposed changes on the redefinition of marriage are neither legally founded nor sufficiently supported with the researches and analysis.
• A proposed equalization of a homosexual partnership with the heterosexual one represents an extraordinarily irresponsible decision at a time when Slovenia is confronted with an extremely low fertility rate.
• The right of homosexuals to the equalised marriage has no basis in any of the binding international document on human rights.
• According to the European Court of Human Rights it is not discriminatory that a marriage and a homosexual partnership do not have the same rights and obligations.

Mail:

Civil Initiative for the Family and the Rights of the Child

Tržaška 85

SI-1000 Ljubljana

Slovenia

E-mail: za.druzinoinotroke@gmail.com

Webpage: www.24kul.si