It was a close vote but the Argentinian senate voted to make it legal for gays in their country to marry and to adopt.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpres … 262nIBQZ9Q
Great, the "land of the free" is now less free than a country that spent much of the last 50 years under fascist dictatorship. Congratulations, religious right!
10 countries now:
2001 Netherlands
2003 Belgium
2005 Spain
2005 Canada
2006 South Africa
2008 Norway
2009 Sweden
2010 Portugal
2010 Iceland
2010 Argentina
Now look at women's suffrage.
New Zealand 1893
Australia 1902
Finland 1906
Norway 1913
Denmark 1915
Iceland 1915
Canada 1917
Russia 1917
Austria 1918
Azerbaijan 1918
Estonia 1918
Georgia 1918
Germany 1918
Hungary 1918
Ireland 1918
Kyrgyzstan 1918
Latvia 1918
Lithuania 1918
Poland 1918
United Kingdom 1918
Belarus 1919
Luxembourg 1919
Netherlands 1919
Sweden 1919
Ukraine 1919
Belgium 1919
Albania 1920
Czechoslovakia 1920
Slovakia 1920
United States 1920
A lot of similarities: Scandinavia leads the pack (except Oceania), Canada well before the US, etc.
Imagine that.
usually as time goes on and society develops it is more permissive,
it is like a cycle, then it will revert back again, non permissive
just like marriage, before there is no law on property or there are no organized religion, there is no signing of papers, just ceremonies,
there are no contract and people don't marry at all (by signing etc), by ceremonies only
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