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Article: Gay marriage moves forward in Spain: the proposed law is another step forward in the global progress of human rights for gay and lesbian people.(VIEWPOINT)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- June 17, 2005
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At noon each day, a cannon shot resounds in the Eternal City. It is a reminder to Romans and all Italians of their victory over the papacy and the birth of the Italian Republic more than 150 years ago. Prego.
Closer to our own times, another secular victory approaches in a country no less Catholic than Spain. In late April the lower house of the Spanish parliament gave its preliminary approval--183 to 136, with six abstentions--to a bill that would make Spain the third country in Europe to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry and adopt children. Bravo.
The proposed language of the new civil law would include the phrase: "Matrimony shall have the same ...