Croatians Back Constitutional Ban of Same-Sex Marriage
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Croatians approved a referendum to place a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, which threatens to dent the Adriatic country’s biggest industry, tourism.
Citizens of the European Union’s newest member approved the initiative for a constitutional amendment to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman with a vote of 64 percent to 34 percent, the election office said on its website today, citing 60 percent of votes counted. The first ever popular referendum in the predominantly Catholic country, where same-sex marriage isn’t legal, was called after more than 700,000 of the nation’s 4.2 million people signed a petition.