According to Timothy Kincaid, the Argentine Senate passed the marriage bill in the wee hours of the morning. It now goes to President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who has spoken out strongly in support. I'm going to repost Kincaid's list because there's an interesting pattern there:
2001 Netherlands
2003 Belgium
2005 Spain
2005 Canada
2006 South Africa
2008 Norway
2009 Sweden
2010 Portugal
2010 Iceland
2010 Argentina
Look at the dates -- do you get a sense that momentum is building? Remember that Nepal (Nepal?) has announced that its constitution will be altered to allow same-sex marriage, probably next year. There is a move in Britain to change civil unions to marriage. And who knows what other country will suddenly jump on the bandwagon? (Iceland came right out of the blue on it.) Hmm -- according to one of the comments on Kincaid's post, Luxembourg is in process.
Joe Jervis has a more detailed report. He also has this little tidbit:
According to the below CBC report, even if Argentina's Senate votes against same-sex marriage today, the nation's Supreme Court has already written a ruling to legalize it and is just waiting for the result of the vote.
The problem that the anti-gay right seems to run into again and again is that in countries with constitutional democracies, "equal rights" means "equal rights." They can't quite wrap their heads around that one. (This assumes, of course, that the judges are actual judges, and not ideologically driven hacks. Timothy Kincaid has an interesting observation on how that's played out here.)
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