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The Archbishop of Kaunas, Kęstutis Kėvalas, stated that the church is tolerant, recognizes people of non-traditional orientation and is willing to help them.
“We all learn to respect another person, including different expressions of the same sex, where those people are perhaps really innocent of having such a situation. It is all the more the church says that we must respect, love and help them to live with security, dignity and peace in society ”, explained the archbishop.
According to him, the church still does not support same-sex marriage or a new family model, but it does not oppose the legalization of such associations.
“If we talk about the coexistence of homosexuals, we could still do it without changing the concepts of marriage and family, but perhaps through various treaties and unions that would not change the institution of family and marriage.
That is the proposal, and that the people themselves should have the right to represent each other, the right to help, which I think is regulated by law. And not only in the sense of single-sex unions, but also in other possible unions that may be not two people, but three or more. In my opinion, this law can really be one that does not oppose society and does not change the usual concepts of family and marriage, ”said K. Kėvalas.
The Istanbul Convention is, in the Archbishop’s opinion, a redundant document and several of its points are controversial and worrying.
“The main objective of the Istanbul Convention, the objective of preventing violence, can also be achieved through our legal instruments. Certainly, several of them have already been created, and those that are missing can be supplemented.
Do you really need to do that by changing your understanding of gender? In my opinion, this is the kind of medicine that is worse than the disease. Disease is violence, but the drugs we offer are too strong, because then the public will resist, ”said K. Kėvalas.
Vytautas Mitalas, representative of the Freedom Party and vice president of the Seimas, explained that the legalization of gender identities and the points mentioned in the Istanbul Convention would make it possible to protect all people from violence. Not just men or women, but also people who have changed their gender.
“We do not have documents that define what responsibility is, what is the regulation in cases where violence is based on gender identity or there is intolerance, hatred based on gender identity,” said Mital.
For the full conversation on the Istanbul Convention, see the program “Section of the day” at the beginning of the article, or here:
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