Slovenia rejects the same-sex marriage in a referendum

Slovenia rejected on Sunday a law that would give sodomite couples the right to marry and adopt children in its second vote on gay rights in four years.

About 63.4 percent of voters rejected the law in a referendum while 36.6 percent supported it. It is a preliminary result of the State Electoral Commission showed after 99 percent of votes were counted.

The public ballot was called after a conservative group called Children Are At Stake gathered the 40,000 signatures needed to call a referendum. The group argued that the marriage equality law does not recognize the importance of motherhood and fatherhood for the development of a child.