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Slovakia's Anti-Gay Rights Referendum Flops Due To Low Turnout<\/b>
\nBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A nationwide referendum on restricting gay<\/a> rights in Slovakia has failed to produce a legally binding result after the required number of eligible voters did not turn out.<\/p>\n

In Saturday’s vote, Slovaks were asked whether they agree to three points: that marriage can only be called a union between a man<\/a> and a woman<\/a>; that same-sex<\/a> partners must be barred from adopting children; and that it’s up to parents to decide whether their children receive sex<\/a> education. The vote was forced by the Alliance for Family, a social conservative group that received a massive support from the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

With all the votes tallied early Sunday by the country’s Statistics Office, voters in the predominantly Catholic country overwhelmingly voted “yes” — 95, 92 and 90 percent, respectively — to the three questions.<\/p>\n

But turnout reached only 21.4 percent, far less than the 50 percent needed.<\/p>\n

“It’s a success of Slovakia’s democracy,” said Silvia Porubanova, an analyst.<\/p>\n

A leader of the alliance, Anton Chromik, said he was delighted that a clear majority of the voters who participated in the ballot supported the alliance and called it “a good base” for its further activities.<\/p>\n

Romana Schlesinger, a LGBT activist said, she hoped the government will now work to make it possible for same-sex<\/a> couples<\/a> to live<\/a> in registered partnership “because all our partnerships, our families are living without legal recognition or protection.”<\/p>\n

Slovakia doesn’t allow same-sex<\/a> partners to live<\/a> in registered partnerships and the country’s constitution was amended last year to define marriage as a union between a man<\/a> and a woman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The vote in Slovakia — which follows a similar one that succeeded in Croatia in 2013 — points to a cultural divide within the European Union in which more established western members are rapidly granting new rights to gays<\/a>, while eastern newcomers entrench conservative attitudes toward LGBT people.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press video<\/a> journalist Philipp-Moritz Jenne in Bratislava, Slovakia contributed.<\/p>\n

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