Ukrainian churches call not to legalize same-sex marriages

25 January 2010 | 11:06
The All-Ukrainian Union of Churches and Religious Organizations has sent letters to the country's officials and Ukraine's permanent delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) with a call not to support legalization same-sex marriages.

The PACE is planning to consider the question about discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity at its session on January 27.

In these letters, Bishop of the Rome-Catholic Church in Ukraine Markiyan Trofymyak, the head of the All-Ukrainian Union of Churches and Religious Organizations, is asking "to take into account a stance of the Ukrainian public, including that of the Churches and religious organizations, which strongly denies Ukraine's international level support to and introduction of any initiatives in our state intended to promote homosexuality and attempts to legalize same-sex relations'