Brazil grants gay couples civil and legal rights

[KittensAngel]

Channel 4 News
Friday 06 May 2011

Same-sex couples are to be given the same legal rights as married heterosexuals in Brazil following a landmark gay rights case. (FULL ARTICLE)


Glorious! How embarrassing for America. The largest Latin American country south of us grants equality for gay rights in marriage, when the supposed "Greatest Nation on Earth", is still fighting to revoke the equal protection clause that guarantees equality for gays and always has, in the Constitution that makes us great!
How tragically repressive and pathetic the phobic bigoted citizen population of our country continue to campaign for such an un-American agenda.

Go Brazil! :bow: Show us how it's done.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

How tragically repressive and pathetic the phobic bigoted citizen population of our country continue to campaign for such an un-American agenda.

Homophobia is as American as baseball and apple pie.

 

[*Anne*]

We're slow, but we'll get there. :rainbow1:

 

[KittensAngel]

Homophobia is as American as baseball and apple pie.

True. And horrifically sad as an American legacy for a country that calls itself the land of the free, insuring life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, for straights only and by law! Thankfully, that's changing one State at a time. Unfortunately there are 50 of them.

:rainbow1: However, freedom shall overcome repression and the push of the repressed to enslave the last community prohibited to be free and equal by law, in America! Which really ticks off those traditionalist bigots and phobes! Given former slaves and women succeeded against those odds of achieving lawful equality and citizen rights first and thus set the example that individuals don't need permission to live as free Americans.

They just need the resolve to overcome those who would destroy them by outlawing their life!

 

[dewanand]

very good, I did not read this in the news yet. Brazil is very civilized.

dewanand

 

[Storm]

Yay, Brazil!

:rainbow1:

 

[Oneatatime]

Good for them. I find the wide-spread oppression of those just being themselves and causing no harm to others depressing.

I expect it'll be a long time before the world is at least legally accepting of homosexuality. Homophobia is unlikely to be wiped out.

 

[LuisDantas]

Just don't assume all is well and good here in this front. We still have a large way to go, and I fear this is a case of the law actually being ahead of the public awareness.

 

[waitasec]

Just don't assume all is well and good here in this front. We still have a large way to go, and I fear this is a case of the law actually being ahead of the public awareness.

yes, but the 1st steps have been made...
the period of adjustment is never easy.

 

[LuisDantas]

I only wish Brazilians were at least a bit responsible about their own politicial path, myself.

But hey, good news are good news.

 

[Darkness]

Once you accept the fact that men and women are equal (not "separate but equal"; just equal), same-sex marriage and the acceptance of homosexual relationships as legitimate is inevitable.