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More amazing news today from Latin America by way of Andrés Duque:
OMG. What IS going on in Latin America! Just a couple of hours ago, the Supreme Court in Costa Rica ruled that a referendum scheduled for December 1st which would have banned marriage rights for same-sex couples was unconstitutional.The article does not give the vote total but says that the majority determined that the issue of marriage rights was a judicial issue and not an electoral issue and that the rights of minorities should never be subjected to a referendum process where they might be subjected to the wishes of a majority.
Spanish language article here.
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Wonderful, too bad the majority of U.S. Citizen’s are religious bigots and can’t see past their own pews to understand the 14th Amendment to our Constitution.
So what does this mean? n/t
Costa Rica won’t put the rights of a minority up for a popular vote.
this year has been so epic.and it’s just a bit over halfway through.
What has happened to the USthat we have fallen so far behind in human rights issues? It is so incredibly sad! Maybe we’ll get our collective act together sometime soon. I hope so, for all our sakes, not just those of us who are LGBT.
Wonderful!And this is the country Rush Limbaugh said he would move to if the public option passed!
Now if we could just get the US to follow Costa Rica’s example!
This is why I’m learning SpanishBecause they are ahead of us, even with the influence of the Catholic church. Kinda says a lot about the future.
ultimas noticias esta nocheIt seems their Supreme Court ruled that the 31 states must recognize same-sex marriages even if they don’t formalize them locally. There was a previous ruling effective only for the D.F., this is new.
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2…
¡Viva México!
Sorry, my question was way vagueWhat I guess I meant was, if the Supreme Court agrees that marriage is a right that shouldn’t be voted on, then how long could it be before marriage equality comes to Costa Rica? The Court says it’s a judicial issue and not an electoral one, so that sounds – at least to me – like the Court would be on our side if it came before the Court. Maybe I’m just reading too far into it.
I wish I knewBut I don’t know the first thing about Costa Rica’s political landscape. For example, until Andres told us today about this ruling, I didn’t even know there was a referendum and that the court was considering the question of its constitutionality. Hopefully someone with knowledge of the country will drop by and fill us in.
this is about Costa Rica, btw, not Mexico
BIG VICTORY FOR US IN COSTA RICA THE REFERENDUM WAS ORGANIZED BY CONSERVATIVE AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS. OUR NATIONAL ELECTION COMMITTEE AGREED TO ACCEPT THE REFERENDUM. WE IMMIDIATLY ASKED THE SUPREME COURT TO DECLARE THIS REFERENDUM UNCOSTITUTIONAL, YESTERDAY TH SUPREME COURT RULED ON TWO ISSUES. FIRST OF ALL IT DECIDED THAT THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE TO BE DECIDED WITH ELECTIONS, THAT IT WAS A MISTAKE BY THE NATIONAL ELECTION COM´MITTEE TO HAVE ACCEPTED THE REQUEST FOR THE REFERENDUM. THE COUT SAID THAT IT IS A LEGISLATAVE ISSUE AND IN A WAY ORDERD OUR CONGRESS TO DRAFT A LAW ON THIS ISSUE. THE SECOND AND MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE THE COURT RULED ON, IS THAT NO MAJORITY GROUP CAN DECIDE ON HUMAN RIGHTS THAT CONCEARN A MINORITY. AND IT WENT FURTHER ON TO SAY THAT, SPECIALLY IN CASES OF MINORITIES LIKE THE GAY MINORITY WHICH HAVE BEEN OPPENLY DISCRIMITED UPON, AND IT ORDERED ALL GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS AS A MINORITY.
WOOOW IT WAS DIFFICULT TO PUT SUCH A LONG STORY IN SO FEW WORDS. YOU CAN GUESS HOW HAPPY WE ARE. I AT LEAST, EXPECTED THE COURT TO DECLEARE THE REFERENDUM UNCONSTITUTIONAL, BUT NEVER EXPECTED IT TO ORDER GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS. BIG STEP FOR US HERE TODAY.
PS THE EFERENDUM WAS NOT ON GAY MARRIAGE, IT WAS ON GAY CIVIL UNIONS
thank you and congratulations!!i’m going to update the title to civil unions.
think of it as a sidebar.
The election of Obama is what happened.
It’s about whatever we think is pertinent and important, and the Mexican Supreme’s decision is very important.
It means that der papenfuehrers attempt at a preemptive strike is going down in flames. Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Spain and Portugal are all ostensibly countries dominated by the catholic cult. Spain and Portugal were the originators and last holdouts of the inquisition and both were dominated until recently by catholic fascists.
In three of them, Argentina, Spain and Portugal, der papenfuehrer campaigned hard against same sex marriage and all three countries kicked him in the ass. (Mexico forbids cult interference.)
One thing it means is that the influence of the roman cult has been seriously weakened in Latin America.
Cuban leader Raul Castro is a long time hard line Stalinist and phobe so progress there is problematic in spite of the revolutionary traditions of the Cuban people. Same-sex civil unions, a second class form of same sex partnering are “legal in Uruguay (2008), Ecuador (2008), Colombia (2009), Brazil (since 2004), and in a few… Venezuelan states.” Uruguay is on the road to transforming second class civil unions into first class civil marriages.