Dreptul la căsătorie între persoane de același sex
Right to marriage between same-sex persons

Summary/Abstract: Social attitudes towards sexual and affectionate relationships between same-sex partners have varied over the centuries and went hand in hand with the attitude dictated by religion. Their family legal obligation resulting from some states in ancient Greece pederasty to form connections with social institutions integration seen in Japan and North American tribes, the silent tolerance in Muslim countries, the perception of relations as a weakness, and in Italy during the Renaissance and to imprisonment or even death, in countries of northern Europe since the late Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Today's religious attitude toward homosexuality vary. Abrahamic religions doctrines are interpreted more conservative groups like seeing all these relations as a sin. In those societies governed by fundamentalist interpretations of religions, these relations are regarded as perversions and are illegal. In some jurisdictions, such as in Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries they are still punishable by death. In contrast, Buddhism, Shintoism and some other religions believes that sexuality in general may interfere with spiritual aspirations and social order, but do not distinguish between objects of desire. Since the nineteenth century, most countries that adopted the Napoleonic Code had no specific prohibitions against homosexual acts between countries while using laws based on English model had laws against sodomy, including the death penalty applies until the end of the nineteenth century.

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