Greek court annuls gay marriages

[WillParkinson]

Greek court annuls gay marriages

(Athens) A court Tuesday annulled the only two same-sex marriages performed in Greece.

In June, Mayor Tasos Aliferis, on the island of Rhodes, performed the weddings after LGBT rights group OLKE said it had found a loophole in a 26-year-old update of the Greek civil marriage law that refers only to participating “persons,” without specifying gender.

OLKE said that by not naming gender the law, albeit inadvertently, allowed same-sex marriage. The group began the search for a mayor who would agree with them and perform the first ceremony.

Hundreds of friends of the couples turned out for the ceremonies, as did dozens of curious townsfolk and the media. One of the couples was lesbian, the other gay.

The government disagreed with OKKE’s assessment of the law. It maintains the law limits marriage to opposite-sex couples and immediately asked a court in Rhodes to void the marriages.

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[RetiredTrotskyite]

1. Typical for a country....

in thrall to a church that has yet to make it out of the 8th C.