INQUIRER.net: First same-sex civil union legalized in Colombia

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First same-sex civil union legalized in Colombia Jul 25th 2013, 02:25 BOGOTA — Colombia got its first legalized same-sex union Wednesday when a judge sanctioned the partnership of two men who have been a couple for two decades.   The newly legalized couple cheered the ceremony as a marriage, although experts cautioned that a high court ruling that deemed the union legal did not make it the equivalent of marriage.   "We are civilly married," Gonzalo Ruiz, 44, told The Associated Press just after ceremony with his partner, Carlos Hernando Rivera, 57.   The ceremony follows Congress' failure in April to pass a law setting up a legal framework for civil unions. A 2011 order from the Constitutional Court had ordered legisl... Keep on reading: First same-sex civil union legalized in Colombia Media files: Colombia-Gay-Marriage.jpg (image/jpeg)

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