Chile Senator to Sponsor Gay Marriage Bill

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Chile Senator to Sponsor Gay Marriage Bill
August 1, 2010

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The head of Chile's Socialist party, Fulvio Rossi, told reporters on Sunday that he planned to sponsor a bill to legalize gay marriage in the country, as occurred last month in neighboring Argentina.

"This is a project that I will present ... and I am also calling on the Church to be more welcoming, and I say that as part of the Church," the senator said, responding to remarks from Chilean Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz who described the same-sex weddings in Argentina as "an aberration."

A gay couple from Chile was among the first to marry in Argentina, in the wine-making Mendoza region, when the country become the first in Latin America to allow same-sex nuptials.

Sebastian Pinera, Chile's first conservative president in two decades, has vowed to give more rights to same-sex couples, but opposes gay marriage.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=11302175

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1. Somehow this sentence sounds eerily familiar.

"Sebastian Pinera, Chile's first conservative president in two decades, has vowed to give more rights to same-sex couples, but opposes gay marriage."

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2. Yeah, it does, doesn't it... SOS. Also, Welcome to DU. n/t