See: Cold snap snap freezes South America
Yeah, have not seen one word of that in the Globe.
Instead we get these flaming f***s:
"Argentina lawmakers’ vote makes gay marriage legal" by Juan Forero, Washington Post | July 16, 2010
With advocates for gay rights watching worldwide, Argentina early yesterday legalized same-sex marriages to become the first country in an overwhelmingly Catholic region, Latin America, to grant same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples....
Gay rights activists from the United States to Europe who had been following the debate said the approval would help hasten similar measures in other countries....
Give it to them and tell them to go away.
There are far more important issues to be dealing with right now.
The approval is a blow to the Catholic Church....
They are taking plenty of them -- and probably giving and getting a few, too.
In Latin America, which is uniformly Catholic and where the church hierarchy is often consulted on major decisions, only Mexico City had approved same-sex marriages. But gay activists say they have made progress.
In Colombia....
Uruguay....
For American gay rights advocates, the vote in Argentina puts that country of 41 million people ahead of the United States, where voters in California and other states have approved propositions blocking gay unions. Only the District of Columbia and five states, four of them in New England, have legalized gay marriages.
Yeah, I live in the leader with the lesbian capital of the world just down the road.
In some ways, Argentina seemed a logical choice for the approval of gay marriage.
Though influential, the Catholic church is not omnipresent, as Argentina has long been a magnet for immigrants from around the world, including Jews, Muslims, and, a century ago, anarchists who rejected the Vatican.
That is who is driving the agenda.
Related:
"This list shows the extreme concentration of a particular political power base in respect of the gay movement and who is behind it."
That list is no longer there, and you can see why.
It is also a country with a strong human rights tradition that sprouted during a brutal dictatorship that lasted from 1976 to 1983.
Also see: Argentinian Atrocities
Sponsored by the CIA. Operation Condor was it?
The Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, is also among the world’s most cosmopolitan cities, with numerous bars and hotels catering to gays....
Doesn't everybody?
Related:
Vatican revises its rules on clergy sex abuse (By Rachel Donadio, New York Times)
Vatican fails to file report on child rights
Ex-bishop takes Fifth in abuse deposition
"Bishop resigns amid coverup charges" by Associated Press | July 17, 2010
BERLIN — Maria Jepsen, the bishop of Hamburg, and the first woman ever elected as a Lutheran bishop, was charged in recent months with covering up for a priest in the northern town of Ahrensburg for years, despite allegations of his sexual abuse....
During her tenure, Jepsen was frequently seen at antidiscrimination rallies and demonstrations and supported the rights of the unemployed and homeless people.
Just the kind of people the church can afford to lose.
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Update: Archdiocesan ads will ask Catholics to come home
Don't try to make up with me now, Globe, with that front-page filler.
Globe sticks it to us just as much as the priests.
