 In its judgment, the court refused to recognise the marriage as there are no legal provisions for same-sex marriage in Poland, but also ruled that Polish constitutional law does not ban such marriages.The justification of the ruling concerning the meaning of Article 18 of the Constitution is not binding, and is contrary to the earlier judgments of the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Tribunal and the Supreme Administrative Court of Poland that have stated the Constitution bans same-sex marriage by defining marriage as a heterosexual-only institution.In a 2002 Pew Global Attitudes Project surveyed by the Pew Research Center, showed majorities in every Western European nation said homosexuality should be accepted by society, while most Russians, Poles and Ukrainians disagreed.