A word to the columnist in Lithuania, family values are translated into the language of fines. The constitution still says that marriage is the union of a man and a woman. Three-quarters of the country's population are Catholic, so the bishops oppose comparing same-sex unions to a family. But the Constitutional Court opened another way - registration of partnerships through the courts. The Ministry of Justice is demanding a law, the parliament has been dragging its feet for years on a decision, and a deputy is already talking about fines of several thousand euros for each day of non-implementation of court decisions. Who in this story has the right to determine what a family is: society, parliament or the court? And why does political discord look more and more like a forced recovery? Our columnist Andrey Razumov analyzes how in Lithuania the boundaries of the traditional family are changed through the legal door of "partnership". Read the column "But no, so pay! ".