Lithuania High Court Backs Same-Sex Civil Unions

The Baltic Times reports:

The institution of partnership, as now defined in Lithuania’s Civil Code, is unconstitutional because it only provides for a union between a man and a woman, excluding same-sex relationships, the Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday.

“Article 3.229 of the Civil Code, insofar as it allows only a partnership between a man and a woman, runs counter to the Constitution,” Gintaras Goda, president of the Constitutional Court, said.

The provision of the Law on the Approval, Entry into Force and Implementation of the Civil Code, which states that the norms on cohabitation without marriage registration come into force from the moment of the entry into force of a separate law regulating the procedure for registration of partnerships, has also been declared as being in conflict with the basic law.

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Lithuania’s Constitutional Court ruled that the abscense of a law regulating same sex civil unions is unconstitutional and ordered the legislative branch to fix this in an adquate timeframe. Utterly shameful that a “soc dem” government needs to be forced into this. pic.twitter.com/X7XK4U5i3l

— Vytautas Jokubauskas (@vytejok) April 17, 2025