The reaction of the New Left was caused by the statement of the Secretary General. of the KKE Dimitris Koutsouba in the Parliament that “same-sex marriage means the abolition of paternity and motherhood out of hand”.

“Listening to Mr. Koutsouba in Parliament today, one could imagine Mr. Samaras or a conservative hierarch in his place. The general secretary of the KKE stated that “same-sex marriage means the abolition of motherhood and fatherhood out of hand”. The Communist Party chooses to invest in the phobic instincts of the Greek society by resorting to anachronistic notions against the right of people, all people, to the legal recognition of their relationship and to adoption”, says the press representative of the New Left Kostis Karpozilos.

“The New Left has a clear and clean position. Rights are universal. For all and sundry. For every citizen without exception. Society will move forward” notes Mr. Karpozilos.

Excerpt of D. Koutsoumba’s speech in the Parliament on the subject

“… When we talk about the civil marriage of same-sex couples, we are not talking about the recognition of a form of cohabitation or some regulation of relations between cohabitants, we are basically talking about procreation, joint parenting, which are not two separate concepts.

On the contrary: same-sex marriage means the abolition of paternity-maternity out of hand. Drives with mathematical precision to parent 1, 2, 3 and put. It leads to extreme commercialization of the female body through surrogacy. This practically means civil marriage of same-sex couples. That’s how it was and that’s how it is, no matter how much some try to separate it for understandable reasons.

So you are making a major move in human rights, you say. You even invoke the rights of children raised by same-sex couples. If you really wanted to adjust or improve some existing arrangements regarding a child’s relationship with his or her biological or adoptive parent’s partner, regardless of sexual orientation, you could do so. And cover some issues of everyday life for the benefit of protecting children.

You say you will bring it, because “this is also true in other European countries”. I will not expand today, but what applies in other European countries is precisely the erasure of motherhood-paternity terms based on the biological complementarity of woman-man in the reproductive process and their replacement by parent 1, 2 vale, etc. as many as you want.

It is the further commercialization of surrogacy which has evolved into a multi-billion profit business and this is not just progress. Obscurantism, modern brutality, stark exploitation it is.

Your responsibility is even greater because you have given the opportunity to project obscurantist views, from various reactionary, extreme right-wingers about the institution of the family who treat women only as a child-reproducing machine. But also in various other irrational, unscientific views on the “social construction of gender” that go so far as to question even the objective social reality and that even lead to child trafficking, ordering children, eugenics in practice as the president of SYRIZA had stated and implied .

That’s for now. Because we will also see the specific wording of the ND bill when it comes and we will talk about it again in more detail. So that the president doesn’t tell me that I’m off topic, but all this concerns the Greek youth, it concerns the Greek worker, the Greek worker who are still at this time on the streets of the struggle”.