Slovenians cast Vote against same sex marriage.

On Sunday, about two thirds of Slovenians rejected a law that would allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt children in the second referendum on gay rights in four years. The ‘No’ vote was championed by a local activist group and the Catholic Church.

A convincing 63.5 percent of
the voters voted ‘No’ to the law defining family as a “union of two persons” instead of “union of a man and a woman,” with 36.5 voting ‘Yes’, according to Slovenia’s Electoral Commission.

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In March, the Slovenian National Assembly passed a law giving same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children, but the provisions were not enforced as a civil society group called ‘For Children’ appealed to the Constitutional Court, calling for a referendum.

The group had gathered tens of thousands of signatures in favor of a nationwide vote, according to local media.

For the outcome to be legally valid, opponents of the law needed to muster the support of at least 20 percent of registered voters - the equivalent of at least 342,000 votes. They ended up garnering 391,818, the commission said.