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Argentina Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

July 16, 2010

Cool! Strange it took so long, what with Madonna's marriage to the president in the 40s and al...

Argentina has become the first Latin American country (and the tenth country overall) to permit full, equal marriage to all its citizens. The vote, which passed 33-27, took place Thursday morning.

Opponents had hoped to instead pass a separate, and inherently unequal, civil unions bill that would have granted most of the rights of marriage to gay couples, but would have barred them from adopting children or even undergoing in-vitro fertilization (an astonishing personal rights invasion, if I ever heard one). Good thing full equality passed instead!

I really don’t have much else to say but congratulations, Argentina!

  • Argentina legalizes gay marriage in historic vote [Associated Press]
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