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Spain Legalizes
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been w ritten, activists jum ped
for jo y and w aved rainbow flags
sym b o lizin g the international
gay rights m ovem ent.
The Rom an C atholic Church,
which held much sway over the
governm ent ju st a generation ago
when Gen. Francisco Franco was
in pow er, was left sm arting from
the vote.
Gay couples can get m arried
as soon as the law is published
in the official governm ent regis­
try - as early as Friday or within
tw o w e e k s a t th e la te s t,
parliam ent’s press office said.
The N etherlands and Belgium
are the only other tw o countries
that recognize gay m arriage na­
tionw ide.
(AP) - Spain becam e the third
country to legalize gay marriage
last week in a parliam ent vote.
The 350 -seat C o n g ress o f
D eputies, by a vote o f 187-147
w ith four abstentions, approved
the m easure to give hom osexual
couples the same rights as het­
erosexual ones, including the
right to adopt children.
A f te r th e ta lly w as a n ­
n o u n c e d , a c tiv ists w atch in g
from the spectator section o f
th e o r n a te c h a m b e r c r ie d ,
ch e e re d , hugged each other,
w aved to law m akers and blew
them kisses.
O utside the stately 19th-cen­
tury cham ber w here other chap­
ters o f Spanish history have
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(AP) - Mexico President Vicente
Fox said Friday that U.S. activists
who have called a new series of
Mexican postage stamps racist do
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should read the comic book on
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“They don’t have information,
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U.S. black activists and the White
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featuring Memin Pinguin, a blaek-
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vidual churches, but could cause
some congregations to leave the
fold.
Roughly 80 percent o f the rep­
resentatives on the church’s 884-
m em ber G eneral Synod voted to
approve the resolution M onday,
a day after a com m ittee recom ­
m ended it.
A small group o f conservative
congregations had proposed an
alternative resolution defining
m arriage as betw een a man and a
w om an, and suggested that sup­
porting gay m arriage could lead
to the church’s collapse.
(A P) — The president o f the
U nited C hurch o f Christ said his
d e n o m in a tio n “ a c te d c o u r a ­
geously to declare freedom" when
it passed a resolution endorsing
sam e-sex m arriage on Indepen­
dence Day.
The resolution calls on m em ­
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c h u rc h e s
of
th e
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bers to consider w edding poli­
cies “ that do not discrim inate
against couples based on gen­
der.” It also asks churches to con­
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