After nearly a decade of constant lobbying and litigation, the homosexual movement has scored a huge political victory in the once conservative Catholic South American nation of Chile, reports LifeSiteNews.
On Wednesday, lawmakers in Chile gave final approval by a large margin to a bill that will allow cohabiting persons, including homosexuals, to enjoy the same benefits, and in some cases greater benefits, than married persons.
Rolando Jiménez, the director of MOVILH, which stands for Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation, pointed out that “eleven years have passed since we introduced the first civil union bill in the national congress,” and continued by “dedicating the victory to homoparental families, and to all those heterosexual couples who didn’t want to marry and who were stigmatized throughout history.”...
