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Switzerland will change its laws to establish marital rights and the establishment of same-sex marriage after voters strongly contributed to the change in the national referendum on Sunday.
With 80% of the votes cast during the day, about 64% of the vote gave equal rights to gays and lesbians.
Although there was a long and sometimes divisive campaign – sometimes sparked by anti-apartheid protests – the results show that many contributed to the transformation of 26 Swiss cones, including conservatives such as Schwyz, Appenzell Innerrhoden and Ticino.
“Today is a day to remember, a day to remember, a day to remember [for me] in my love for my colleague, with whom I have been with for over 24 years, ”said the co-president of the” yes “referendum committee, Maria von Känel.
“We don’t see the difference between a city and a country. There is also a partnership between Swiss French and German-speaking Swiss. This is a clear idea [in favour of] ‘a public wedding’, “said Lukas Golder, chairman of researcher gfs.bern.
While Switzerland has for many years allowed European allies to grant equal rights to same-sex marriage, Sunday voters realized that nowhere in Europe saw so many people who voted in public to get married.
The vote was approved by the Swiss government.
The Swiss parliament voted to give equal rights to same-sex marriage in December 2020. But opponents have used national laws to force the issue to be heard in public.
The government initially did not want to include the right to allow them to participate in the referendum, fearing that doing so would jeopardize their chances of success. But gay and lesbian activists further emphasized that the ‘light of marriage’ decision was not an option.
This is a children’s rights campaign. One of the common misconceptions was that the petition meant that a man who donated sperm to married couples would not have the right to see or know the child, and the child would not have the right to know his father until he was 18 years old.
Monika Rüegger, a member of the Swiss People’s Party and a non-campaign spokeswoman told the SDA news agency that the vote was a “dark day for child protection”.
Many in Switzerland were sometimes astonished by the picture of a development in which no camp was used: one protest sign had a distressed child, whose ear was inscribed “Commanded… Saved…”
Someone had a close-up photo of a zombie at the end of the devastation, with the words “Children and the Dead,” inscribed on it.
The rationale behind the claim – ridiculed by many – was that the need for sperm for allowing gay or lesbian rights, would mean sperm kept by men who later died should be used.
The yes page was removed from the internet briefly in August after being raped by cyber. It is not known who caused this.
Homosexuality was legalized in Switzerland in 1938, but “seductive” racist laws were used to oppose homosexuality until the 1970s.
In 2005 58% of voters promoted same-sex relationships, giving them a tax-equal inheritance as same-sex couples.
The right to adopt children and access to obstetric care is not included, however.