ZAGREB, Jan 23 (Hina) - The president of Iskorak -- an association for the promotion of homosexual rights -- Dorino Manzin, condemned Thursday's statement by MP Ljubica Lalic of the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS) who said in
parliament that a same sex relationship was "an anti-natural behaviour".
ZAGREB, Jan 23 (Hina) - The president of Iskorak -- an association
for the promotion of homosexual rights -- Dorino Manzin, condemned
Thursday's statement by MP Ljubica Lalic of the Croatian Peasants'
Party (HSS) who said in parliament that a same sex relationship was
"an anti-natural behaviour". #L#
"With great abhorrence of such statements on 'anti-natural
behaviour' or 'professional help to homosexuals', I condemn the one
made by Ljubica Lalic because it shows intolerance," read a
statement which Manzin distributed to reporters in parliament.
During a debate on a government's bill on family, marriage and
common-law marriage, on behalf of the HSS bench Lalic opposed the
proposal to make common-law marriage between persons of the same
sex legal and said it was "an unnatural behaviour of a very small
number of citizens". She said homosexuals should be sent to
psychological counselling centres.
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