Nobody really cares about gay marriage in Spain
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
The following article was published September 06, 2005. While the numbers have since risen to a couple thousand, the general fact remains ... there has been no mad rush to get married on the part of homosexuals.
The so-called need for legalizing in Spain homosexual marriages has one big problem. Hardly anybody wanted it - that is except the politicians
By Robert Duncan
The so-called need for legalizing in Spain homosexual marriages has one big problem. Hardly anybody wanted it - that is except the politicians.
That's certainly one way to read the news this past weekend that since July 3 when the government ramrodded through its same-sex marriage legislation - arguing that thousands of gays could now be rid of discriminatory practises - only 22 couples have bothered to get married.
That's right, only 22 same-sex marriages have been performed in Spain so far this year, according to an article in La Razon, a newspaper that contacted various Spanish marriage registeries.
That same La Razon article noted, "this means that around two out of every 100 of the 10,474 homosexual couples registered in the National Statistics Institute census have decided to take this step. The proportion is even smaller is we compare it to the roughly 35,000 hetero couples that have been married in the two months since the law has came into vigor."
Whatever happened to the so-called 5 percent to 10 percent of the Spanish population that were going to benefit from this new law?
That said, there are 291 same-sex couples that have registered to get married in the coming months, according to La Razon, with the majority in Madrid, with around 150 couples having registered to get married.
And there are still legal questions. At least two judges have held off a couple of same-sex weddings over concerns the government's legislation is anti-Constitutional. They've asked the Supreme Court to take a look at the legislation.
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Robert Duncan is a journalist and ombudsman for foreign press in Spain. He is an Executive Board Member and Vice-President for the Organización de Periodismo y Comunicación Ibero-Americana, and Vice-President of the energy and telecommunications association, APSCE. He is News Editor for Spero News, and Editor-In-Chief of EnerPub and Santificarnos.
He has also been published in World Catholic News, National Catholic Register, Renew America, Lifesite.net, as well as Capital Hill Coffee House, Common Conservative, The Conservative Voice, Enter Stage Right, News By Us, Conservative Crusader, World Net Daily, Mens News Daily and others. Robert was the bureau chief for an international news agency in Madrid for many years, and was published regularly in Dow Jones Newswires, with articles appearing in The Wall Street Journal.
The so-called need for legalizing in Spain homosexual marriages has one big problem. Hardly anybody wanted it - that is except the politicians
By Robert Duncan
The so-called need for legalizing in Spain homosexual marriages has one big problem. Hardly anybody wanted it - that is except the politicians.
That's certainly one way to read the news this past weekend that since July 3 when the government ramrodded through its same-sex marriage legislation - arguing that thousands of gays could now be rid of discriminatory practises - only 22 couples have bothered to get married.
That's right, only 22 same-sex marriages have been performed in Spain so far this year, according to an article in La Razon, a newspaper that contacted various Spanish marriage registeries.
That same La Razon article noted, "this means that around two out of every 100 of the 10,474 homosexual couples registered in the National Statistics Institute census have decided to take this step. The proportion is even smaller is we compare it to the roughly 35,000 hetero couples that have been married in the two months since the law has came into vigor."
Whatever happened to the so-called 5 percent to 10 percent of the Spanish population that were going to benefit from this new law?
That said, there are 291 same-sex couples that have registered to get married in the coming months, according to La Razon, with the majority in Madrid, with around 150 couples having registered to get married.
And there are still legal questions. At least two judges have held off a couple of same-sex weddings over concerns the government's legislation is anti-Constitutional. They've asked the Supreme Court to take a look at the legislation.
Click here to return to homepage
Robert Duncan is a journalist and ombudsman for foreign press in Spain. He is an Executive Board Member and Vice-President for the Organización de Periodismo y Comunicación Ibero-Americana, and Vice-President of the energy and telecommunications association, APSCE. He is News Editor for Spero News, and Editor-In-Chief of EnerPub and Santificarnos.
He has also been published in World Catholic News, National Catholic Register, Renew America, Lifesite.net, as well as Capital Hill Coffee House, Common Conservative, The Conservative Voice, Enter Stage Right, News By Us, Conservative Crusader, World Net Daily, Mens News Daily and others. Robert was the bureau chief for an international news agency in Madrid for many years, and was published regularly in Dow Jones Newswires, with articles appearing in The Wall Street Journal.
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