The same-sex marriage celebrated ten years in … – First Time

                 
                      
 

 
     By EFE
 
 
 
 
 
 06/28/2015 | 08: 38 a.m.
 

               

The law allowing same-sex marriage in Spain meet in the coming days ten years and in this period has resulted in 31,610 links .

Emilio Menendez and Carlos Baturin became the small country’s history when almost ten years ago in a village close to Madrid, were the first same-sex couple could get married in Spain thanks to the newly approved law.

The standard, developed by the socialist government headed by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, amended the Civil Code to allow marriage and adoption of same-sex and was approved by Congress 30 June 2005.

From then until 2014, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE), there have been 31,610 links between same sex in Spain, which was the fourth in the world in match the rights of all couples.

Against that law unconstitutional appealed the Popular Party (center-right), then in opposition and now in government, but in October 2012 the Court ruled adequacy text of the Constitution and rejected the initiative popular.

The standard also was criticized by the Catholic hierarchy and there were large street demonstrations against the legal change.

Ten years later State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals (FELGTB) of Spain calls the law of “teaching” because it has been “a social change of acceptance, visibility and normalization of sexual and gender diversity.”

The company has seen that gay marriage enriches not create any social conflict and does not harm the rights of others, while from the psychological point of view, the LGBT community has seen a strengthening of self-esteem, says president Jesus Generelo.

In the early years of the law, two marriages between women were recorded by one among women, while the data of recent years reflect a trend towards equality, says the sociologist University of Salamanca Ignacio Paredero.

After the US Supreme Court legalized gay marriage Friday across the country, the recent victory of yes in the referendum in Ireland and support the Mexican Supreme Court, unions between same sex are done or are about to be in twenty countries.