Macho Spaniards approve of gay wedlock

[dArKeR]

Madrid - Nearly 70 percent of Spaniards are in favour of a planned law to legalise gay unions, despite strong opposition from the church in the traditionally Catholic country, a poll showed on Thursday.

Three quarters of respondents to the nationwide poll by the Centre for Sociological Investigations also said they thought the law should give homosexual couples exactly the same rights and obligations as heterosexual partners.

Spain, where 95 percent of the population is registered as Catholic, is increasingly liberal and its recently elected Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has made the gay marriage law a high-profile issue during his first months in office.

Only 11.6 percent of the 2 479 people questioned for the poll, which has a 2.0 percent margin of error, said they were very or quite opposed to the law.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1090503720826B215

[2Design]

1. well maybe we will get more liberal and open governments everywhere

else.....but the usa.....we will have a place to move to....

[Blayde Starrfyre]

2. Good news

Hopefully news like this is signalling the death of the Catholic church and its 2000 year old stifling hold on human progress.

[LivingInTheBubble]

4. Or maybe

it signals that religious people can make good decisions too.

I do realise its more fun to demonize them.

[itcfish1]

5. Don't Confuse

Catholics in Spain going against Church doctrine as the end of the Church. Spain and Italy have always gone against the church in sex, birth control etc. But the peoples faith in the religion is very strong.

[AlecBGreen]

3. Ole!

Me gusta Espana!