A draft law on registration of same-sex partnerships submitted to Rada

MP Inna Sovsun at the LGBT march. Photo: vsirazom.ua

MP from the Holos party Inna Sovsun has filed for registration in the Verkhovna Rada a draft law on “registered partnerships”, which aims to equalize the rights of same-sex unions and traditional families. The parliamentarian announced this on her Facebook page.

According to her, if passed, “the bill will finally help unions determine mutual rights and obligations, issues of property ownership, inheritance, social protection, rights in the event of death or disappearance of a partner.”

“Nothing extraordinary. Everything that has always been available by default to heterosexual couples in Ukraine,” writes Sovsun.

She mainly substantiates her legislative initiative with the alleged need to protect the rights of LGBT servicemen.

“I could say that this is what the Western allies demand from us – and it’s true, they demand it,” the people’s deputy admits. "But something else prompted me to register the bill - I meet and talk with LGBT soldiers, I hear about their problems. I am convinced that, as a society, we must correct a great injustice to the effect that certain male and female citizens have less rights than everyone else.”

Inna Sovsun said that she was preparing her bill together with public organizations that defend the “rights” of LGBT people. According to the document, not only representatives of the same sex, but also opposite-sex couples who "cannot or do not want" to marry will be able to conclude "registered partnerships".

“As a society we are mature to break out of the Russian bonds and the Soviet worldview. <...> And this is another thing that makes us and the Russians simply biologically different species,” Inna Sovsun believes.

As the UOJ reported, in March 2022, Inna Sovsun was one of the initiators of bill No. 7213 aimed at liquidating the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

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