Spanish Senate vetoes gay marriage law
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Madrid, Spain, Jun 23, 2005 / 12:00 am (CNA).- After heated debate, the Spanish Senate vetoed a bill that would make homosexual unions equivalent to marriage.  Now voters are demanding the bill be completely killed in the Senate rather than being sent to the House of Representatives and that a referendum on the issue be held.

The move to veto passed by a vote of 131 to 119.  The measure could go back to the House of Representatives, where the Socialist government has enough support for it pass in a vote scheduled for June 30.

The civil rights watchdog website HazteOir.org launched a campaign to have the measure killed in the Senate before it gets sent to the House and that a referendum on the issue be held, so that “the Spanish people can address this issue that has divided our society and our representatives so much.”

“To approve this law without a consensus would be a new display of unwillingness on the part of the Government to listen to different sectors and of the imposition of its policies without any dialogue with society.  We demand that Zapatero withdraw this bill,” said Ignacio Arsuaga, president of HazteOir.og.

“If the Senate does not veto it, the bill will return to Congress and we will continue demanding, in the name of a million and a half protestors who filled the streets of Madrid last Saturday, that the president of the government withdraw this bill,” he added.

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Published by: Maryse Usher
Australia 06/24/2005 10:41 PM EST
Catholics all over the woirld are relieved and joyful at the reaction to Spanish catholics to this diabolical bill which tries to glorify sodomy. May all the good people of Spain rise up against this evil. God bless and protect Spain!
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Published by: Joseph Arthur
TX, USA 06/24/2005 08:32 PM EST
Hooray for the Spanish Senate. Now instead of a Zapatero we need a Franco or a Queen Isabella. Perhaps Catholics have forgotten that the sin of sodomy is one of the four sins crying out to God for vengeance. Perhaps people think that Sodom and Gommorah was a fairy tale and that St. Paul didn't know what he was talking about in his letters. Viva España. Viva Cristo Rey. Vivo la iglesia católica
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Published by: ROGER DUCHESNEAU
U.S.A. 06/24/2005 01:56 PM EST
Thank you,for your courage in opposing same sex marriage ,and, being faithful to catholic teachings.KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!MAY GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE OF SPAIN.
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Published by: Yvon Thivierge
SSM Ontario CANADA 06/24/2005 10:46 AM EST
This article implies the goverment hasn't listened to the opponents of same-sex legislation. It omits the fact a die-hard homophobe testified that gays were sick and dangerous and was denounced by his own sponsors.
I don't know that the Church listens to GLBTs very much: indeed, it prefers to slam its doors in their faces.
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