This happened last night, so you probably already know, but…
Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday to recognize same-sex civil unions as a “family entity.”
The ruling makes the largely Roman Catholic country one of a few countries in South America to allow some form of legal unions for homosexual couples.
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The ruling grants gay and lesbian couples the same benefits – such as retirement benefits, inheritance, community property and social welfare – as heterosexual married couples.
Separate but equal, but okay.
I always enjoy linking to sources like the Christian Post when stories like this come out.
And so brazil has beaten us now. I am ashamed to be american
The infection of puritanism is still alive and well in the american body politic, it’s just hard to detect sometimes, like Lyme disease.
I agree Phoenix, if were young now I would definitely move to Canada or western Europe.
Phoenix….I am sad to say, I am getting more and mroe used to that feeling. Even my conservative Hetero friends in Europe mock us now (note, most conservatives in western Europe are nor raging homophobes. :(