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Two weeks ago a local judge ruled that Alex Freyre and Jose Maria Di Bello could get a marriage license, but yesterday a higher-level judge put the brakes on the men’s wedding. Freyre and Di Bello first met at an AIDS awareness event and wanted to commemorate that anniversary by marrying today, World AIDS Day.
“The wedding’s been suspended but we’re appealing to the Supreme Court today so we can figure out which court ruling to follow,” said Ivan Pavlovsky, a spokesman for Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri.The Roman Catholic Church in Argentina had criticized the judicial decision to let the couple marry and urged authorities to reconsider.
Macri, considered a possible presidential candidate in 2011, has resisted pressure to challenge the court decision, arguing that the time is right for the region’s first same-sex marriage….
Maria Rachid, the couple’s lawyer, told Reuters that the ruling blocking the wedding was “illegitimate.”
“We’re going to ask for the annulment of the judge’s decision to suspend the wedding and going to sue her for abuse of power and for ruling against the law,” Rachid added.
Different country, same theocratic politics it would seem.
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Ridiculous.I hope the higher courts stop the delays and get marriage equality rolling. It’s insane to make all these loving couples wait any longer.
The Catholic Church is a profound powerIt can and has blessed armies overthrowing democratic and secular governments in South America.
But…as always, the LGBT community will extract no cost to the church for oppressing us….
Hey, it sounds just likethis latest judge must be a fierce advocate for gay equality.
The US government is a far more profounder powerIt can and has actually directly helped to overthrow democratic governments in South America.
And various, many catholic priests in South America long opposed those dictatorial governments that were set up by the US government.
South America is still today the heartland of Liberation Theology and Reconciliation Theology, and Liberation Theology still has tremendous influence among Catholics in South America, including the clergy.
For example, Oscar Romero, Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Segundo Montes.
I’m not defending the RC church on their bigotry here; my point is that they nowhere close to being a danger to democracy in South America, not compared to the US.
Liberation Theology is deadThe chaplain to the unit that murdered Romero now occupies his throne in the cathedral
No it isn’tThe Vatican wants it dead, just like they want many other things. That doesn’t make it dead.