Spain! Gay marriage!
Jun. 30th, 2005 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chickenWhat a week, wow. And a Catholic country, even.
Spanish MPs approve gay marriages!
The bill will become law in a month's time, making Spain Europe's third nation after the Netherlands and Belgium to allow same sex marriages.
Only the Netherlands and Belgium? What happened to all those Scandanavian countries? I guess they most have the same kind of "almost" marriage that Vermont or Iceland have, where there are some crucial rights missing. UPDATE: Oh, just as I thought. Denmark et al. (including Iceland, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
felisblanco pointed out yesterday) have "registered partnerships", not full civil marriage. Still pretty awesome and leagues better than all those places that actively forbid gay marriage (AHEM, cough, 40 U.S. states).
Still, WOW.
Spanish MPs approve gay marriages!
The bill will become law in a month's time, making Spain Europe's third nation after the Netherlands and Belgium to allow same sex marriages.
Only the Netherlands and Belgium? What happened to all those Scandanavian countries? I guess they most have the same kind of "almost" marriage that Vermont or Iceland have, where there are some crucial rights missing. UPDATE: Oh, just as I thought. Denmark et al. (including Iceland, as
felisblanco pointed out yesterday) have "registered partnerships", not full civil marriage. Still pretty awesome and leagues better than all those places that actively forbid gay marriage (AHEM, cough, 40 U.S. states).Still, WOW.
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Date: 2005-07-01 12:17 am (UTC)I am not looking forward to people pointing to this as evidence that gay marriage is eroding the institution of marriage. In the sense of "Look what you made us do!"
(I've seen people complain similarly about Danish civil unions eroding marriage by being not-quite-marriage. Well, whose fault is that?)
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