Colombia Establishes Marriage Equality For Gay Couples (Sort of)
The South American nation of Columbia has gay marriage now. Sort of.
Yesterday’s ruling goes farther, giving gay couples all the benefits and responsibilities enjoyed by heterosexual common-law couples.
Gay and lesbian couples can claim common-law marriage after living together for two years.
The ruling alleviates discrepancies in the areas of military pensions, social security benefits and property rights.
Several prominent lawmakers support giving more rights to gay and lesbian couples, Bogota’s Mayor Luis Eduardo Garzon and prominent Senator Armando Benedetti among them, reports the Washington Post.
This part threw me:
Gay people are often called desechables, which translates to disposable people.
When I visited Brazil as a kid, the disabled were called handicapped in America and deficientes, or deficient people.
