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Story Updated : November 30, 2009 03:05:00 PM

Argentine Judge Halts Gay Marriage


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With just hours to go before Alex Freyre and José María Di Bello were to become the first same-sex couple in Latin America to tie the knot, a judge in Argentina has put a stop to the ceremony.

Judge Marta Gomez Alsina, in the capital city, Buenos Aires, ruled Monday that the planned wedding will be suspended. The court website reads that she ordered the wedding blocked until the case could be reviewed by the supreme court.

Freyre and Di Bello were profiled in the Sunday edition of the U.K. newspaper The Guardian. The couple, who met three years ago at an HIV conference, were granted a marriage license November 16 and planned to be married tomorrow.

"This marriage is bigger than José María and I," Freyre told the paper. "It is a victory for all who face prejudice and discrimination across Latin America and the Caribbean. It is proof that at last the grip of the Catholic church is slipping across Latin America, the system that has kept gay communities silent and fearful is crumbling. What is happening on Tuesday is a strike against those attitudes that have repressed sexual rights across this continent for too long."

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  • Name: daniel
    Date posted: 12/30/2009 12:10:14 PM
    Hometown: san antonio tx.

    Comment:

    what is this world going to, God created man and woman to reproduce as a couple, even animals can destinguish between mates. this is not natural, it's not what you want or I, it's what God wants, what happen to Sodom and Gomorra ?? we don't want to create hate against this individuals but they can change if they want to. We put a blind eye and become tolerant but all are teaching others is that it's ok to be a homosexual. This is not a disease or a born thing, it is perverse..then we ask ourselves , "why is this world like it is" we make it that way, by our thoughts and selfish way of being. yes, you can change, be strong will.

  • Name: michaelandfred
    Date posted: 12/1/2009 6:57:50 PM
    Hometown: Miami beach

    Comment:

    Anybody know how that even works? A judge ruled they could wed and the city didn't appeal. How can some random judge somewhere suspend it without the case coming before her? Judges everywhere wold be stepping all over each others toes.

  • Name: Warren
    Date posted: 12/1/2009 10:22:05 AM
    Hometown: NY

    Comment:

    Mike, by that logic you should leave Cincinnati and move to Canada or even Iowa since Ohio has a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage. Also if you read the article this is putting the ceremony on hold so the supreme court in Argentina can review the case. If they rule favorably my educated guess is that same sex marriage will be legal throughout the richest Catholic country outside of Europe. That would be an even bigger victory than just in BA alone. Let's wait and see. In the meantime I'd still make that trip to BA. It's one of the world's great cities. Just make sure you fly on a gay friendly airline (American is the best bet), stay in a gay friendly hotel (the Axel is gay owned and 'straight-friendly') and support other LGBT friendly businesses and maybe read up a bit on what the community there is doing. I understand your sentiment and I have had the same impulses but I think drastic responses such as what you suggest are not necessarily the right way to go.

  • Name: mike
    Date posted: 12/1/2009 8:48:56 AM
    Hometown: cincinnati

    Comment:

    I had been thinking about visiting Buenos Aires. I won't now.



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