Equal marriage law upheld
Spain’s Constitutional Court has upheld the country’s gay marriage law. On November 6, it rejected an appeal by the ruling conservative Popular Party and protected the seven-year-old law. The court voted 8-3 to dismiss the appeal of the Popular Party, AFP reports.
The party won power in December, 2012, ending seven years of Socialist government.
They had contested the use of the word “marriage” to describe a union between a same-sex couple, but Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has previously said he supports civil unions for gay couples.
The gay marriage law, which also lets homosexual couples adopt children, has allowed as many as 30,000 gay couples to wed, according to a national federation of gays, lesbians, transsexuals and bisexuals.
The Spanish justices are to publish a full written opinion at a later date.
