In the "socialism gets some things right" department, Spain - the most religious nation in Europe - is about to approve a bill ensuring the right of homosexual couples to marry and adopt children. The bill has already passed the House and is expected to easily pass in the Senate too. Spain will join Belgium and the Netherlands as countries which give full legal marriage rights to gays.
Justice Minister Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar argued that the bill overcomes "the barriers of discrimination, many of them with deep historical or primitive roots, which affect rights and freedoms and, in a specific way, the extension of free choice in the search for happiness, an unwritten basic right".
The Spanish Prime Minister issued a statement in which he said ""One of the guarantees of democracy is the freedom of religion, freedom of opinion and freedom to carry out a political project with the citizens' vote."
Viva Espana!
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