FILE PHOTO: People walk under a rainbow coloured umbrella during the GayFest 2010 parade in Bucharest May 22, 2010. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania set an Oct. 6-7 date for a referendum to change the constitutional definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman, aimed at preventing same sex partnerships from ever being legal in one of the few EU states to still ban them.
Most EU countries allow either same sex marriages or civil partnerships, but Romania does not even recognise those performed abroad. Its constitution now defines a family as including spouses, without explicitly specifying their sex.
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