YES, Argentina!
Argentina has legalized same-sex marriage, making it the first country in Latin America to do so.
Thursday's vote in the Argentine Senate was close, with 33 votes for, 27 against and 3 abstentions. The approval came despite a campaign by the Roman Catholic Church and evangelical groups against the measure.
While Argentina is the first Latin American country to grant gays and lesbians full marriage rights, progress has been made in other jurisdictions. Same-sex civil unions have been legalized in Uruguay and some states in Mexico and Brazil. Colombia's high court has granted same-sex couples inheritance rights and allowed them to add their partners to health insurance plans. Mexico City went further, legalizing gay marriage within the metropolis.
In Chile a gay marriage law is currently at the committee in their Congress. Activists in Paraguay hope to propose a similar law to their senate this fall. And in Uruguay, gays are pushing for full marriage rights rather than the partial rights that come through civil unions.
And what do we have in the USA? Oh yeah, The Defense of Marriage Act.
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