From Time magazine, written in a friendly but not especially authoritative way in my opinion. While brief I think this piece does miss key angles to the global eqality debates. That said its mere publication is TIME is useful and welcome.
Posts Tagged: Portugal
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Jun 10
FIRST PORTUGAL MARRIAGES
Wedding bells starting ringing in Portugal today as the small European nation joined this list of countries offering equality.
Read about the first couple married – Teresa Pires and Helena Paixao, divorced Portuguese mothers in their 30s- here
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Jun 10
WHY WE NEED MORE FOOTBALL HEROES SUPPORTING EQUALITY
Our latest superstar supporter
The footballer Cristiano Ronaldo did a great thing this week – openly backing his country’s (Portugal) adoption of marriage equality.
In an interview with Público (translated also by blogger Andrés Duque) he says “I know the law was passed and the comment it deserves is that we must respect the choices made by anyone, because, after all, all citizens should have the exact same rights and responsibilities.”
This matters because it is a real barometer of change. It matters more than an actor speaking up, or a gay lobby group quote because we do not expect to hear such opinions from such traditionally masculine and often homophobic environments. This will help bring other equality supporters out of the closet – a great thing in a world where it is more common for Australian footballers or famous basketballers to advise gays to stay in the closet!
Ronaldo did not have to do this – let’s thank him for it, and go out and find the next Ronaldos.
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May 10
PORTUGAL IGNORES POPE TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE
Portugal 1. Pope 0.
Common sense and courage is going to prevail in Portugal. The Pope’s recent pleading in which he someone rationalised gay marriage as a greater evil that his own paedophile priests, seemed to have led to nothing more than a polite delay in President Anibal Cavaco Silva’s ratification of the recently passed equality law.
Silva was less than enthusiastic in his speech, saying: “I feel I should not contribute to a pointless extension of this debate.”
