Estonia: Religious Association Restrictions of Same-Sex Couple Religious Rights

dc.contributor"European Union (EU)" and "Horizon 2020"
dc.contributor.authorKilp, Alar
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-17T13:28:09Z
dc.date.available2018-04-17T13:28:09Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractEU law on same-sex unions (SSU) expects Member States to legally recognize the family life of same-sex couples in the form of marriage, partnership, or cohabitation. The normative expectation, which in about 2010 became a principled position of the EU institutions and the European Court of Human Rights, has not been endorsed by one Western European Member State (Italy) as well as the majority of the post-Communist Member States (Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia). There are a number of causes behind the failure to enact SSU laws: the legacies of the communist regimes, the prevalence of a certain interpretation of Christian doctrine, the medium level of economic affluence, and an unfavorable balance of power between the change and blocking coalitions of social, religious, and political actors. Unlike Western European countries, where the family life of same-sex unions was legally recognized primarily due to pressures from below (due to changes in public opinion and shifts in cultural values), governments and legislatures in most Central and Eastern European Member States are encouraged more from above (by the European Union and the Council of Europe). Therefore, the prospects for legal recognition of same-sex unions are slim in countries where the European normative agenda meets no significant support from domestic social values or religious and political actors. This conflict of national and EU forces is most likely to persist in Member States which are post-Soviet, culturally Orthodox, not shifted from materialist to post-materialist values, and governed by right-wing governmental coalitions.et
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10062/59744
dc.language.isoenget
dc.publisherKrakow: NOMOSet
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/691818///UPTAKEet
dc.relation.ispartofEkaterina Elbakyan, Liudmyla Fylypovych, Henryk Hoffmann, Anna Ksiazek (Ed.). Religion in the Context of Globalization: Legal aspects of the functioning of religious organizations (84−97).
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesset
dc.subjectEuropean Unionet
dc.subjectlaw and religionet
dc.subjectsecularismet
dc.subjectnormative valueset
dc.subjectsexualityet
dc.subjectsame-sex unionset
dc.subjectEuropean Court of Human Rightset
dc.subjectEuroopa Liitet
dc.subjectreligioonet
dc.subjectõiguset
dc.subjectsekularismet
dc.subjectväärtusedet
dc.subjectseksuaalsuset
dc.subjectsamasooliste kooseluet
dc.subjectEuroopa Inimõiguste Kohuset
dc.titleEstonia: Religious Association Restrictions of Same-Sex Couple Religious Rightset
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleet

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