After the United States Supreme Court announced the ruling of same-sex marriage in the whole country, gay communities in different parts of the world are even more determined to fight for their stand.
The United States shocked the whole world when it announced that same-sex marriage has been legalized in all of its states. The LGBT community in America rejoiced in victory in what seemed like a never-ending battle of rights. The news also sparked more gay right movements in Latin American countries like Chile and Mexico.
According to an AFP report, gay right marches are being conducted in these countries after the historic decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to allow gay couples to wed.
"Chile in January passed a law allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions. But for many in the South American nation, legal marriage remains the symbol of equal rights under the law," the report stated.
In Santiago, Mexico, 50,000 marchers waved their rainbow-colored flags as a sign of diversity and equality in a very conservative country whose majority consists of Roman Catholics. Not only were they trying to fight for legal marriages, but they also want an easier transition process for transgenders. In Chile, a person has to go through a long two-year process before gender transition.
"With one vote of a US court people want to change the way we live around the world. That is colonialism, imperialism worse than economic imperialism," Catholic Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani said. "The United States is not the (world's) brain, in charge of how people live in today's world."
Even with opposition in Latin American countries which are greatly influenced by religion, same-sex marriages are ironically having legal gains. For instance, the Mexican high court has made it easier for gay couples to seek court injunctions to process marriages. However, this does not fully legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.
In a report by Pew Research, this kind of ruling is a big step for same-sex marriage legalization. Apart from the United States, Europe is the next most number of countries that allows same-sex union.
Chile remains the Latin American country that is most supportive of the idea of same-sex marriage being legalized.
Data also shows that younger Mexicans are more likely to be in favor of the union that the older community. Specifically, 63 percent of Mexicans, with ages 18 to 34 years old, are in favor of same-sex marriage.
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