“I will speak with the language of the heart. For us at Freedom Sailing, and fortunately for others here, who are advocating that issues that should have been settled many years ago and it is a self-evident duty of the Greek State to settle them, even belatedly, even after pressure from the EU, this bill comes to recognize them. Even if incomplete in some cases, it recognizes rights that already exist in the rest of Europe and in American states”, said the special buyer of Freedom of Navigation Spyros Bibilas.

“If you are a recognized parent in a European state, why not be a recognized parent in Greece, which is a European state? So, the time has come for the entire Greek society to face what it has never had the courage to see, for decades”, said Spyros Bibilas and added: “We hear loud voices of hysteria, racists, who allegedly vent their racism saying “baby, let them do what they want in their bed, but don’t ask us for anything more”. It’s as if these people have more power over other people’s lives than we do. It is as if you, my dear friends, do not see the truth, it is as if you close your eyes to the visible reality that is in front of you. As if you don’t know that in almost every Greek family, in every Greek society, there is a person of another sexual orientation. As if we are not all children of the same God, whom you invoke, to whom you address, as if they are not children of the same universe, as if you are something more than the people born of the same nature that you were born, these different people. Why don’t you respect that? Why do you speak disparagingly?’ said the Freedom Sailing specialist buyer and added:

“What is preferable for you?” Should people live happily, live in companionship with a family, or be condemned to hide, as they did for so many years, to live alone, because you selfishly decide that and call yourselves normal?”