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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Europe cannot take the place of the sovereign people and force others to do what it does or does not want, because in case you are not aware, Europe has a motto: ‘Unity in diversity’; in other words, everyone is master of his own home.
The parliamentary questions being discussed today are very similar, and their aim is to ensure that the Commission imposes on Member States the obligation to recognise marriages between same-sex couples and prevent any form of discrimination with regard to adoption. The
group cannot agree to the European Union taking over people’s right to safeguard their own cultures, traditions and roots.
Traditional marriage, in other words, between a man and a woman who perhaps bring children into the world, is the only form that can and must be recognised. Any other form of union between people of the same sex may exist but certainly cannot and must not be considered a marriage.
We are even more alarmed by the call from those who tabled questions for children to be adopted by same-sex couples. What upbringing could they receive? No one wishes to prevent homosexual couples from helping, for example, orphans or poor children by long-distance adoption, but, while it is one thing to help them grow up in their birth families or in their own countries, it is quite another to ask to adopt them."@en1
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