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
Contents:
- A REVIEW OF THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI: ARGENTA, CHILE, AND MEXI
- THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
- THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI
- CHILE’S NGRS REGNIZ SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, JOG LAT AMERI’S SHIFT TOWARD GAY RIGHTS
A REVIEW OF THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI: ARGENTA, CHILE, AND MEXI
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. * gay marriage latin america *
Sept 26 (Rters) - 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 is a timele on same-sex marriage across Lat Ameri and the Caribbean:Pre-2010 - Only a handful of untri worldwi regnize same-sex marriage, mostly Europe. 2011 - Brazil's Supreme Court l that gay upl stable relatnships should have the same rights as heterosexual upl terms of retirement benefs, herance and alimony. Colonial-era "buggery" laws banng gay sex were overturned parts of the Caribbean but still exist some untri cludg Jamai and Barbados.
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. 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.
Wh public polici toward gay marriage varyg wily, this is a cril moment to look at cizens’ opns wh rpect to same-sex marriage.
THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
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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). 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).
Fally, we take to acunt a number of variabl measurg basic socenomic and mographic characteristics that are thought to play a role shapg public opn toward homosexualy. As found prr rearch, we also expect men to be more cled to disapprove of homosexualy than women (Herek 2002; Ke 1984; Ke and Whley 1996), and people wh higher to be more tolerant than people wh lower (Hodgs Persell, Green, and Gurevch 2001).
THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI
Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry. * gay marriage latin america *
Followg rearch by Stephan and McMull (1982), we expect urbanism to be posively associated wh tolerance toward homosexuals and support for same-sex marriage. At the dividual-level of analysis, our statistil analysis dit that strong relig valu and more nservative iologi have a signifint negative impact on dividual support for homosexuals havg the right to marry. In our analys of natnal-level factors, we found strong empiril evince supportg the classic claim that both enomic velopment and tn crease tolerance for homosexual rights.
Sce the first same-sex marriag took place the Netherlands 2001, more than 30 other jurisdictns have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry, mostly Europe and the Ameris. Netherlands2001EuropeFirst untry to legalize same-sex marriage after Parliament passed the law December Zealand 2013Asia-PacificFirst untry the Asia-Pacific regn to allow gays and lbians to 2009EuropeThe law replaced a 1993 statute permtg civil unns.
Slovenia 2022EuropeFirst untry formerly munist Eastern Europe to legalize same-sex Ai 2006Sub-Saharan AiOnly Ain untry where same-sex marriage is legal; several untri on the ntent have passed laws that ban homosexualy recent 2005EuropeBeme the third untry globally to legalize same-sex marriage after a vote s closely divid 2009EuropeGay and lbian upl Swen prevly had been allowed to register for civil unns sce 1995.
CHILE’S NGRS REGNIZ SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, JOG LAT AMERI’S SHIFT TOWARD GAY RIGHTS
While laws allowg same-sex marriage have bee more mon European untri and U.S. stat, gay marriage advot also have gaed ground some parts of Lat Ameri. Most recently, the Mexin Supreme Court issued a lg makg much easier for gay and lbian upl to wed. * gay marriage latin america *
1%) st ballots favor of legalizg same-sex marriage a 2021 2019Asia-PacificA urt lg prompted a change the law that ma Taiwan the first jurisdictn Asia to perm gays and lbians to Kgdom 2014EuropeLegal same-sex marriage took effect Northern Ireland 2020, six years after the change England and Wal. Homosexual upl are granted all the same legal rights as heterosexual upl, and the untry ntu to take steps to improve sexual tn and prevent discrimatn. The Domin Republic ntu to fend s nstutnal article rtrictg marriage as a unn between a man and a woman, and the bate remas tense as evangelil anizatns and gay rights anizatns pete to sway public opn.
Niragua do not allow same-sex marriage, and homosexual cizens often experience discrimatn and vlence for their sexual orientatn. However, homosexual upl married other untri have succsfully appealed for regnn of their marriage Pe, sparkg a bate about the untry’s legislatn. Caribbean untri that have ratified the Amerin Conventn on Human Rights, Barbados, Domi, and Jamai, all crimalize homosexualy.
Grenada and Surame, English-speakg untri South Ameri, have both ratified the Amerin Conventn on Human Rights, but while Grenada crimaliz homosexualy, Surame crimaliz discrimatn, wh special rtrictns on discrimatn based on sexual orientatn. The Polics of Gay Marriage Lat Ameri: Argenta, Chile, and Mexi By Jordi Díez New York: Cambridge Universy Prs, 2015, 302 pag.
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Consequently, is not easy for scholars, and much ls for the sual observer, to make sense of the patchwork of gay marriage laws emergg om Lat Ameri recent years. In this first book by a sgle thor on the polics of gay marriage Lat Ameri, Jordi Díez, a 2014 DRCLAS Peggy Rockefeller Visg Scholar, offers his take on why gay marriage has met divergent receptns across the regn. In Mexi, some stat and the Feral District of Mexi Cy have moved forward wh gay marriage laws, wh the blsgs om the urts, while other stat have moved the oppose directn by banng gay marriage.
Díez’s theoretil approach for explag the divergence of gay marriage laws Lat Ameri draws heavily on two semal schools of thought om the social movement lerature. In keepg wh the theoretil anchorg pots, Díez argu that the key factors acuntg for gay marriage divergence Lat Ameri are: (1) the strength of the work of ti lkg activists to other groups society; (2) the accs to the policy-makg arena afford by particular natnal polil stutns; and (3) the ronance of the claims ed by gay activists to mand the expansn of marriage rights to same-sex upl.
The analysis of Argenta pellgly shows how the ntacts that gay activists ma wh members of the polil class, the burecracy, the media and the human rights muny were pivotal to the succs of the stggle for gay marriage Argenta 2010.