Tuesday, February 21

Progresso em Portugal

Eu amo os portuguêses. Nós poderíamos aprender muitas coisas deles.

It’s wonderful that in 2004 Portugal amended its constitution to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. That is powerful ammunition for those currently leading the fight for equal marriage, which gained new momentum last Thursday when a petition with over 5,000 signatures in support of same-sex marriage was delivered to Portugal’s parliament.

Meanwhile on the other side of the Atlantic, we’re still thinking about enshrining discrimination in our Constitution. Will we ever learn?

4 Comments:

Blogger erva_cidreira said...

Στην πραγματικότητα οι υπογραφές φθάνουν σχεδόν τις 7000. Η συζήτηση για το νόμο σχετικά με τον γάμο ομοφύλων είναι προγραμματισμένη για το 2007.
Μακάρι να τους πάνε όλα καλά.
(Κι ίσως κάποτε έρθει επιτέλους και η σειρά των ελλήνων)

1:33 AM  
Blogger Michael Guy said...

Sadly, nope-- I don't think "we'll ever learn." The heinous gay agenda is trotted out whenever national/regional elections are pending; I figure Fall '06 will have some fireworks in that regard.

"thanks" for stopping by my blog!

8:26 AM  
Blogger The Persian said...

ahh I love the portugese as well, we will not learn anytime soon sadly enough. But it's refreshing to hear the world isn't following our "example".

10:04 AM  
Blogger Sandouri Dean Bey said...

erva-
Αΐντε νά’ρθει κ’η σειρά σου έυχομαι καί στά δικά σου :)
-Ντίνο

10:55 AM  

Post a Comment

<< Home

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.

AMAN YALA CLAIMS NO CREDIT FOR ANY IMAGES FEATURED ON THIS SITE, UNLESS EXPRESSLY STATED. ALL VISUAL CONTENT IS COPYRIGHT TO ITS RESPECTFUL OWNERS. IF YOU OWN RIGHTS TO ANY OF THE IMAGES AND DO NOT WISH THEM TO APPEAR ON THIS SITE, PLEASE CONTACT ME VIA E-MAIL, AND THEY WILL BE PROMPTLY REMOVED.