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Madrid legalises gay marriages
By Leslie Crawford in Madrid Published: June 30 2005 17:22 | Last updated: June 30 2005 17:22 Financial Times Spain on Thursday legalised gay marriage and granted same-sex couples the right to adopt children and inherit property from each other, despite protests from conservative groups and the Roman Catholic church. The law makes Spain only the third country in the world, after Belgium and the Netherlands, to recognise gay unions. Canada will be next. Its Senate is expected later this month to ratify a gay marriage bill, passed by the House of Commons on Tuesday. In Madrid, gay activists celebrated the vote by waving rainbow flags and kissing outside the Cortes, or national parliament. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain's Socialist prime minister, said the law ushered in “a more decent society, which does not humiliate some of its citizens.” Since taking office in April last year, Mr Zapatero has legalised stem-cell research, made divorce easier and introduced tough penalties against wife battering. Later this year, the government plans to loosen restrictions on abortion and draft a gender equality bill to end discrimination against women in the workforce, mandating equal pay for equal work. But the gay marriage bill was the most controversial of the prime minister's liberal social agenda, and it has become the focus of a conservative backlash in Spain. Spanish bishops have denounced gay marriage as “the greatest threat to the Roman Catholic church in 2,000 years”. Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, archbishop of Madrid, led a protest march in June that was attended by more than 160,000 people. Traditional family groups tried to halt the vote in parliament on Thursday with a petition signed by 600,000 opponents of the law. Mariano Rajoy, leader of the opposition Popular party, on Thursday said he would challenge the gay marriage law in Spain's Constitutional Court. Polls show a majority of Spaniards approve of gay marriage (although they have reservations about gays being allowed to adopt children), in a sign of how attitudes have changed since the restoration of democracy, 25 years ago. However, a growing number of critics initially sympathetic to the Socialist government believe Mr Zapatero is focusing on social reforms to the detriment of more pressing problems.
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