{"id":8768,"date":"2016-04-15T11:42:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T11:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T15:22:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:22:16","slug":"parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament Considers Draft Law Discriminating Families and LGBT Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

HRMI urged <\/a>the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs to reject draft constitutional amendments aiming to narrow down the definition of a family to heterosexual marriage.<\/p>\n

In 2013, the amendments were initiated by 107 MPs who proposed to define a family as a marriage between a man and a woman or relations stemming from motherhood and parenthood.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Constitutional court has held that family cannot stem from marriage only. More important than the form of family relations is their content, that is mutual responsibility, understanding, emotional attachment, and voluntary commitment, therefore family relations can be formed between unmarried people having no children, or single parents and their children, and so on.<\/p>\n

European Court of Human Rights has also stated, already back in 1979<\/a>, that family life cannot be restricted to marriage only and can encompass other de facto family relations. Since then the Court recognized as falling under the concept of family life relations between grandparents and their grandchildren, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles and their nephews and nieces, foster and adoptive parents and children.<\/p>\n

HRMI urged the Committee to reject the draft law because it aims to discriminate families and deprive some of them of constitutional protection without any reasonable grounds or objective justification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HRMI urged the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs to reject draft constitutional amendments aiming to narrow down the definition of a family to heterosexual marriage. In 2013, the amendments were initiated by 107 MPs who proposed to define a family as a marriage between a man and a woman or relations stemming from motherhood and …<\/p>\n

Parliament Considers Draft Law Discriminating Families and LGBT Community<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[169,127,175],"tags":[141],"yoast_head":"\nParliament Considers Draft Law Discriminating Families and LGBT Community - \u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Parliament Considers Draft Law Discriminating Families and LGBT Community - \u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HRMI urged the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs to reject draft constitutional amendments aiming to narrow down the definition of a family to heterosexual marriage. In 2013, the amendments were initiated by 107 MPs who proposed to define a family as a marriage between a man and a woman or relations stemming from motherhood and … Parliament Considers Draft Law Discriminating Families and LGBT Community Read More »\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"\u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HRMI.LT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-04-15T11:42:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-16T15:22:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13006464_10154264961145283_7919323988938881718_n.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Deimant\u0117 Ju\u0161\u010di\u016bt\u0117\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Deimant\u0117 Ju\u0161\u010di\u016bt\u0117\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Deimant\u0117 Ju\u0161\u010di\u016bt\u0117\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#\/schema\/person\/892e372bade860878571028f96ab03a9\"},\"headline\":\"Parliament Considers Draft Law Discriminating Families and LGBT Community\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-15T11:42:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-16T15:22:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/\"},\"wordCount\":211,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"equal rights\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Legislation comments\",\"News\",\"Our work\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/\",\"name\":\"Parliament Considers Draft Law Discriminating Families and LGBT Community - \u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-15T11:42:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-16T15:22:16+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Parliament Considers Draft Law Discriminating Families and LGBT Community\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/\",\"name\":\"\u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas\",\"description\":\"hrmi.lt\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#organization\",\"name\":\"\u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cropped-HRMI-logo-EN-baltas-tekstas-1-1-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cropped-HRMI-logo-EN-baltas-tekstas-1-1-1.png\",\"width\":1111,\"height\":577,\"caption\":\"\u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HRMI.LT\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#\/schema\/person\/892e372bade860878571028f96ab03a9\",\"name\":\"Deimant\u0117 Ju\u0161\u010di\u016bt\u0117\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/14f189c5bb42a5530e5f8df12759e5c7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/14f189c5bb42a5530e5f8df12759e5c7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Deimant\u0117 Ju\u0161\u010di\u016bt\u0117\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/author\/deimante\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Parliament Considers Draft Law Discriminating Families and LGBT Community - \u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Parliament Considers Draft Law Discriminating Families and LGBT Community - \u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas","og_description":"HRMI urged the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs to reject draft constitutional amendments aiming to narrow down the definition of a family to heterosexual marriage. In 2013, the amendments were initiated by 107 MPs who proposed to define a family as a marriage between a man and a woman or relations stemming from motherhood and … Parliament Considers Draft Law Discriminating Families and LGBT Community Read More »","og_url":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/","og_site_name":"\u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HRMI.LT","article_published_time":"2016-04-15T11:42:55+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-02-16T15:22:16+00:00","og_image":[{"width":960,"height":480,"url":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/13006464_10154264961145283_7919323988938881718_n.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Deimant\u0117 Ju\u0161\u010di\u016bt\u0117","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Deimant\u0117 Ju\u0161\u010di\u016bt\u0117","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/"},"author":{"name":"Deimant\u0117 Ju\u0161\u010di\u016bt\u0117","@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#\/schema\/person\/892e372bade860878571028f96ab03a9"},"headline":"Parliament Considers Draft Law Discriminating Families and LGBT Community","datePublished":"2016-04-15T11:42:55+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-16T15:22:16+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/"},"wordCount":211,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#organization"},"keywords":["equal rights"],"articleSection":["Legislation comments","News","Our work"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/","url":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/","name":"Parliament Considers Draft Law Discriminating Families and LGBT Community - \u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-04-15T11:42:55+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-16T15:22:16+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/parliament-considers-draft-law-discriminating-families-and-lgbt-community\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Parliament Considers Draft Law Discriminating Families and LGBT Community"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#website","url":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/","name":"\u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas","description":"hrmi.lt","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#organization","name":"\u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas","url":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cropped-HRMI-logo-EN-baltas-tekstas-1-1-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cropped-HRMI-logo-EN-baltas-tekstas-1-1-1.png","width":1111,"height":577,"caption":"\u017dmogaus teisi\u0173 steb\u0117jimo institutas"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HRMI.LT"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#\/schema\/person\/892e372bade860878571028f96ab03a9","name":"Deimant\u0117 Ju\u0161\u010di\u016bt\u0117","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/14f189c5bb42a5530e5f8df12759e5c7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/14f189c5bb42a5530e5f8df12759e5c7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Deimant\u0117 Ju\u0161\u010di\u016bt\u0117"},"url":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/author\/deimante\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12007,"href":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8768\/revisions\/12007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrmi.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}