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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (LifeSiteNews) – The Eastern European country of Slovenia just legalized same-sex “marriage” and adoption privileges last Friday, following two cases in which litigants complained they could obtain neither.
According to Jurist, the Slovenia Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities said the court was acting in response to the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The Dobbs ruling laid out principles according to which the Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalizing same-sex “marriage” in the U.S. could also be overturned.
The Constitutional Court of Slovenia voted 6-3 in the two cases it heard, striking down current laws that it claimed were “inadmissible discrimination against same-sex couples.”
Slovenia was previously part of Yugoslavia, which criminalized sodomy in 1959. However, this was undone in 1977, when Slovenia was granted authority over its own criminal code as a member state of Yugoslavia.
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In 2006, Slovenia allowed domestic partnerships. The National Assembly then attempted in vain to pass a bill legalizing same-sex “marriage,” but instead, opponents got the
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