Cubans overwhelmgly approved gay marriage and adoptn a ernment-backed referendum on Sunday, a landmark vote half a century after a wave of state persecutn sent many homosexual people to forced labor mps and to exile.
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Argenta is the regn’s first untry to legalize gay marriage, but tolerance is not as high across untri. Here’s why. Jog South Ai, Canada * gay marriage in latin america *
Argenta is the regn’s first untry to legalize gay marriage, but tolerance is not as high across untri. Jog South Ai, Canada and seven European untri, Argenta has now extend the full rights of marriage to gays and lbians natnwi. The law, signed by Print Crista Fernánz Kirchner on July 21, 2010, means that civil registri n now procs marriage licens for gay upl wh the first ceremony set for Augt 13 Buenos Air.
But gay marriage is also the subject of tense discsn across the Ameris. Yet same-sex civil unns, which give homosexual upl some of the rights enjoyed by heterosexual on (cludg social secury herance and jot ownership of property, but excludg adoptn rights), are legal Uguay (2008), Ecuador (2008), Colombia (2009), Brazil (sce 2004), and a few Mexin and Venezuelan stat. 2007 Gay Pri Para, Buenos Air(Source: Lo085/Wikimedia Commons; Thumbnail: Lo085/Wikimedia Commons).
Wh public polici toward gay marriage varyg wily, this is a cril moment to look at cizens’ opns wh rpect to same-sex marriage.
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Notably, spe the fact that the newly approved nstutn grants full rights to homosexual civil unns, Ecuador is posned well below the regnal average wh 18. Followg the publitn of semal rearch on polil tolerance that exam the impact of relig valu toward homosexuals (Gibson and Ted 1988; Golebwska 1995), we clu two variabl that are nsired to be key: importance of relign and relig group participatn. Several scholars have found that disapproval of homosexual rights is hight among dividuals wh strong relig inti and who attend relig servic equently (Ellison and Mick 1993; Herek 1998; Herek and Capan 1995, 1996; Olsen, Cadge, and Harrison 2006; Seltzer 1993; Wilx and Wolport 2000).
Beliefs about homosexualy and support for gay rights have been found to vary substantially by relign. While Atheists are expected to exprs tolerance toward mori’ rights, membership evangelil nomatns has been found to be lked to tolerance of homosexuals the Uned Stat (Jelen, 1982).