“I chose to vote against and not abstain from voting, because in my life everything I believe is right, I fight for it to be done and everything that is bad, I fight for it not to happen”, said New Democracy MP Marios Salmas closing his speech. “Abstinence does not express my character, nor my life attitude, nor the way I dream. Therefore, abstinence does not apply in my case”.
Marios Salmas said he will vote against the marriage equality bill because he disagrees with the right of same-sex couples to want to have and adopt children, in a speech with clear ideological references.
“I believe that the draft law we are discussing today worries society. Society is not worried because it is affected materially, but it is worried as if it is affected. What is affected? It is the fundamental principle of society which is the values, the ideals, the principles with which this society, the Greek society, was created,” he said.
“The rules that this bill changes are rules that the state steps on, Greek society steps on and that’s why it worries, they are rules that have remained unchanged for more than 2.5 thousand years, and that we are quickly coming to change them and with consequences that we don’t know what they will be”, continued Mr. Salmas.
“I will not vote for this draft law, I will vote against it with complete peace of mind. I respect all citizens, homosexuals, heterosexuals, gays, I respect that they should have equal rights with everyone, there should be no racism, based on gender and sexualities. I disagree with them wanting to have and adopt children. Because that’s what it’s about. The rest was regulated by the Coexistence Pact”, said the ND MP and added:
“Nobody asked me to. I have tens of thousands of voters, in the 24 years that I have been an MP. One didn’t ask me. I have gay friends, acquaintances. One didn’t tell me ‘fix me the right to be able to have children’. So I can’t figure out who asked for it. And since, quite coincidentally in 2022 the president of the USA signed for gay marriage, I wonder how suddenly, after thousands of years of human existence on earth, it opened in the USA, in other countries and it opens here? Random? I was not a conspiracy theorist. Let me say that it is not accidental, and since I do not know who asked for it and why they asked for it, I cannot consent.’
“Rights are defined by nature by natural laws, by morals and customs and traditions and by legislation. Nature has determined the right for children to grow up and be born. I, by law of the state, to change the law of nature, I cannot, I will not do it,” said Mr. Salmas and added: “because we are so cut, with a special cross-party consensus, for the rights of these people of LGBTI community, I didn’t see that we have the same interest in children’s rights, because we have to promote these too, for the children who are in institutions, the children who are born and abandoned, who grow up to one year old in the Alexandra hospital ward. The political system, for decades, along with the lengthy court proceedings, cannot solve the issue of how these children will grow up in heterosexual families, who are interested in adopting them by the thousands.”
The draft law is not in accordance with society, said the ND deputy and added: “I chose to vote against and not to abstain from voting, because in my life everything I believe is right, I fight for it to be implemented and everything “What’s wrong, I’m fighting to prevent it from happening,” added Marios Salmas.
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