Brazil recognises gay civil partnership!

[Spekio]

So our supreme court recognized homosexual couples have the same rights as heterosexual couples' civil partnerships!
Awesome!
http://mixbrasil.uol.com.br/pride/polit ... xuais.html - in portuguese!

[Feil]

Good news! Congratulations to you and your country

Here is an article in English about this. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... 338bea.301

The Catholic Church is putting up the usual fight against such unions, but today it is love and equality which prevails.

Yana Marull (AFP)

"Lacking a law approved in Congress regulating gay civil unions and homosexual marriage, the recognition by the Supremes is the best thing that could happen," said Maria Berenice Dias, a judge specializing in gay rights.

Dias said that the rights of a "stable union" are virtually the same as those of a marriage, because they recognize the couple as a family unit.

"It means that no judge can deny rights" such as retirement benefits, inheritance, health benefits and the adoption of children, Dias said.

I doubt that this will prove to be fully true - as long as there is hate, means will be found to enforce it. But the balance has shifted strongly in the right direction with this vote.

[wautd]

The Catholic Church is putting up the usual fight against such unions.

Duh, sexual intercourse between two of the same sexes is only OK when one of the two is still a child. Sex between 2 consenting adults however.... eeeeevilllll!!!

[SirNitram]

I declare this as sufficient for a Snoopy Dance for me.

[Shroom Man 777]

That is excellent. Brazil's anti-American former Marxist guerrilla lady President is shaping up to be totally awesome.

[hongi]

Isn't Brazil the largest Catholic country in the world? Excellent. Despite the demographics, sanity prevails.