Costa Rica's President
Elect Opposes Same-Sex Marriage
Pridesource says that Costa Rica's first
woman president elected, Laura Chinchilla,
supports gay civil rights but doesn't want
gays "to touch an institution like
marriage."
The online publication says that speaking to
media during the campaign, Laura Chinchilla
said: "A society that aspires to show
solidarity and protect everyone's freedoms
and defend human rights cannot discriminate
in access to rights for reasons of religious
beliefs, political beliefs or sexual
preferences. In that sense, we defend the
right of all Costa Ricans, independently of
their sexual preferences, to have the
protection of the state and of the
institutions, and to have access to the
different opportunities that Costa Rican
society offers."
"Nevertheless," she said, "there are
different ways other than marriage to
guarantee homosexual couples the right to
the patrimony of their partner, to
patrimonial rights, to political rights, to
civil rights. We are working on this and I
hope that we certainly can get ourselves in
agreement without needing to touch an
institution like marriage, which also has
been conceived by so many Costa Rican
families within a different concept."
The Pridesource article has made headlines
in the online gay community.
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