{"id":48990,"date":"2013-11-08T20:03:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T16:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=48990"},"modified":"2013-11-08T20:03:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T16:03:48","slug":"croatia-to-vote-on-allowing-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=48990","title":{"rendered":"Croatia to Vote on Allowing Gay Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gay-marrage-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48988\" alt=\"\u053d\u0578\u0580\u057e\u0561\u0569\u056b\u0561\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gay-marrage-1.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Croatia, the newest member of the 28-nation European Union, will hold a referendum on whether to allow gay marriages but rights groups say the vote is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament voted Friday to have a Dec. 1 ballot with the question: &#8220;Do you agree that marriage is matrimony between a man and a woman?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If a majority vote &#8220;yes&#8221; in the referendum, Croatia&#8217;s constitution will be amended to ban gay marriages.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups have announced an appeal against the referendum, claiming it infringes on basic human rights. An anti-gay group, meanwhile, gathered over 700,000 signatures in support of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute over gay rights has divided Croatia. The country has taken steps to improve gay rights, but issues such as same-sex marriage remain highly sensitive in the staunchly Catholic nation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croatia, the newest member of the 28-nation European Union, will hold a referendum on whether&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[3663],"class_list":["post-48990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-gay-marriage","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}