NEWS.- 30 June 2005 in the seat of the Congress one of the most progressive laws was voted and that was going to place to Spain to the head of the rights of gais and lesbians anywhere in the world, the law of the equal marriage.
Were issued 338 votes, 187 in favor, 147 against and 4 abstentions, 40 votes that were decisive for the more than 30.000 couples that have been able to marry in our country in this decade, and those that will come.
The law that was elaborated by the socialist government that presided at that time José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, modified the Civil Code to allow marriage and adoption between people of the same sex, matching those unions to those contracted between a man and a woman. The July 3 came into force and just a week later, the July 11, Emilio Menéndez and Carlos Baturin passed to the history in the madrileña locality of Tres Cantos, like the first pair of the same sex that had been able to contract marriage in Spain.
The then Minister of Justice of the first Zapatero Government, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, he proudly recalls "the first time that Spain was placed at the forefront of social rights in the European Union." A simple modification of the Spanish Civil Code, eighteen words that changed history: "Marriage will have the same requirements and effects when both parties are of the same or different sex".
Two months later the PP appealed against the law of gay marriage, which was known as "the resort of shame". The response of the Constitutional Court was clear and conclusive, recognizing that not only was a right, but had persisted in the discrimination of the homosexual sector of the population, would have incurred an unconstitutional conduct. But to recover the memory are video libraries and YouTube.
Today we want to share this anniversary with those who have been able to give surnames to their daughters and children, with whom they have not been expelled from their homes and have been entitled to a decent pension, with whom, in short, they have been able to make public their love and legal your marriage. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL @!
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