U.S. Now Lags Behind Latin America On Gay Rights

With Argentina approving gay marriage, they’re a step ahead of the United States.

After 15 hours of debate, the Senate voted 33 to 27 in favor of the measure, which was sponsored by the government of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. For weeks, she waged a bitter war of words with the Roman Catholic Church over the measure.

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Mexico City became the first jurisdiction in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriages last year. Two other countries in the region, Uruguay and Colombia, allow civil unions for same-sex couples

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.