Kids TV program
in Spain features same-sex marriage

A Spanish children's television show that featured a same-sex marriage was lauded by the country's gay rights groups on Wednesday and denounced by others who labeled it political propaganda, Agence France-Presse reports. The show, Los Lunnis, aimed at children ages 3 to 7, aired on TVE state television May 18 and included a short section called "Different Marriages," featuring a Sudanese marrying a Spaniard, two Catalans marrying in a regional ritual, and a marriage of two men. A lawmaker from the opposition Popular Party accused the ruling Socialists of using the show to promote same-sex marriage and an adoption bill approved in April, labeling the move a scandal. Spanish gay rights group FELGT, however, praised the director general of Spain's public radio and television network, Carmen Caffarel, "for work done by public television in favor of diversity in Spanish families". Spain's new laws on same-sex marriage and the adoption of foreign children by gay couples are expected to come into effect in the coming months. Despite the law, the issues of marriage equality and adoption by same-sex couples remain controversial in Spain, an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country.