Two days of voting on a constitutional amendment that would make it harder to legalise same-sex marriage is underway in Romania.
A conservative group initiated the referendum being held on Saturday and Sunday, and the influential Romanian Orthodox Church is backing it.
The proposed amendment would revise the definition of family in the Constitution of Romania to make marriage "a union between a man and a woman" instead of "a union between spouses."
At a rally this week in southern Romania, Orthodox Bishop Sebastian Pascanu told believers that homosexuality was an "abnormality that first appeared in Western countries."
"This abnormality needs therapy, treatment rather than special laws like the ones that have different sexual orientations would like to have."
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