{"id":1128,"date":"2004-09-30T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/30\/applause-for-spain\/"},"modified":"2004-09-30T09:36:11","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T17:36:11","slug":"applause-for-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"Applause for Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spain’s socialist government is moving rapidly to expand both women’s and gay rights. Expatica<\/a> reports that Spain’s government is drafting a bill that will grant gays the same legal rights as heterosexuals with regard to divorce, inheritance, and citizenship. Adoption by gays will be restricted to Spanish children. In contrast, the opposition Popular Party supports same sex civil unions, and opposes adoption. With Spanish support for same sex marriage reported at 66%, unions of one sort or another seem inevitable.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Spain is simplifying divorce. Earlier this month the news.telegraph<\/a> reported that starting next year, Spain will permit divorce within as little as 10 days. It is estimated the typical uncontested divorce will take 2 months, and the total time will be restricted to 6 months. The news.telegraph reports the change is welcomed by Spaniards.<\/p>\n

Spain’s prime minister Zapatero is also proposing easing abortion restriction and lifting restrictions on embryo research. More recently, the news.telegraph<\/a> reports the socialist government is also proposing to keep religious education optional, remove crucifixes from public buildings like prisons, schools and military head quarters, subject religious teachers, who are paid by the government, to secular employment regulations and cut government funding of the Catholic Church by half. A self avowed feminist, Zapatero also plans to modify the law to permit female succession to the throne, and, more importantly, to crack down on domestic violence.<\/p>\n

So many changes in so little time. As an American citizen, I know my opinion about all this is of little importance, but I can only smile and applaud!<\/p>\n

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\nUpdate (Friday Oct.1): CNN<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Cabinet has approved a bill to revise the Civil Code to permit homosexual matrimony,”….<\/p>\n

The bill now goes to Parliament, where the Socialist government says it has enough support to pass the law, which could make gay marriage possible by next year.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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