Uruguay, a small South American country of 3.3 million people, has essentially approved same-sex marriage. On December 11, 2012 the Uruguayan House of Representatives passed a bill approving same-sex marriage by a whopping 81-6 margin. On April 2, 2013 the Uruguayan Senate approved a similar bill 23-8. The bill has to go back to the House for reconciliation, and then on to the president, who has already promised to sign it into law. It’s no longer a question of whether same-sex marriage will become legal in Uruguay, but how soon. Once the bill is signed, Uruguay will become the 12th country to legalize same-sex marriage (if France doesn’t beat them to it).
This was a very fast development, considering the fact that the country just approved civil unions for same-sex couples in 2009.
The only other South American country in which same-sex marriage is legal is Argentina.
Thinking to Believe 
April 10, 2013 at 1:09 am
Let Marriage go by the wayside to whomever wants to pursue it and start a new way forward; let’s call it the “Wo-Mantic Union”, thus designating the man- woman relationship as a prerequisite; mind you, these days one cannot be sure exactly what gender people appear to be anymore since sex change has become normality that manipulates the body gender missed by nature to reflect the brain gender and righting a natural physical wrong.
I personally believe the time has come to abolish Marriage as an Institution anyway whose religious roots have reaped ridicule enough upon its oft thought divine status when in fact it was and still is a societal sex control mechanism.
Let’s start a modern union and shed tradition. Let traditional marriage go to whomever wants it. One need not want to join a new Union and if you do not, then do not. But let human rights BE Human Rights and not what some people demand to be only rights for certain humans BUT human rights that are for all humans.
Re-Classify Unions for Modernity.
I find that my wife and I are quite happy in our “Wo-Mantic Union”. It is and we are, very “wo-mantic”; and,
we never worry about what anybody says anymore; we are adults capable of making up our own adult minds.
We’re not kids following Parental Guides or Patriarchal Dominion any longer.
We are free from the tyranny of other human dictates.
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