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Chile: Lawmakers Respond to Murder of Gay Man With Gay Rights Law

Saturday, April 7th, 2012

Chile: Lawmakers Respond to Murder of Gay Man With Gay Rights LawLawmakers in Chile have responded to the murder of Daniel Zamudio by passing a gay-inclusive anti-discrimination law.

Zamudio died March 27 from injuries he received during an attack in a park in Santiago on March 3. Police have arrested 4 suspects who have been charged with beating Zamudio for an hour, burning him with cigarettes and carving Nazi symbols into his body. Officials believe the 24-year-old Zamudio was targeted because he is gay.

The House of Deputies this week joined the Senate in approving the anti-discrimination bill which was first proposed in 2005. Evangelical churches had lobbied heavily against the measure, arguing it would lead to the eventual legalization of gay marriage, the AP reported.

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Chile Constitutional Tribune to Vote 9-1 Against Marriage Equality

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

Chile’s Constitutional Tribunal will make an official verdict next week in which they will reject as “inapplicable” arguements made in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage. The case has been going on for a year now, and sought to challenge the decision of a Civil Registry official who refused to grant a marriage license to a same-sex couple.

The vote came down 9 to 1. There were four different opinions from the judges, apparently, and some may mean that there can be future litigation.

The case involves three same-sex couples and Chile’s Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation, and is part of a push to challenge the constitutionality of Article 102 of the Civil Code. That article defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.

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Chile: President Doesn’t Support Full Marriage Equality

Monday, August 15th, 2011

Chile Gay MarriageLast Tuesday, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera sent a bill to Congress proposing legislation that would recognize gay civil unions, granting them inheritance rights and other privileges currently reserved for heterosexual marriages.

Two days later, Chile’s Independent Democrat Union introduced a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. But is the amendment a backhanded response to Pinera’s legislation or actually a way to do President’s dirty work?

Even though members of Independent Democrat Union refused to attend last week’s signing ceremony–where President Pinera put his John Hancock (or Juan Mano-pollo) on the legislation for Life Partner Agreements–they also know that the President opposes full-marriage equality. In fact, Pinera has repeatedly said, “I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman,” though he adds, “that conviction does not prevent me from recognizing that other forms of affective relationships exist.”

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Chile: Constitutional Ban on Marriage Equality Introduced

Friday, August 12th, 2011

Members of Chile’s Independent Democrat Union (Union Democrata Independiente) on Thursday will introduce a constitutional amendment that seeks to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman, La Tercera reported.

The move comes 2 days after President Sebastian Pinera sent to Congress a bill that would grant gay and lesbian couples many of the rights and benefits of marriage. The Life Partner Agreement (Acuerdo de Vida en Pareja or AVP) would allow gay and straight couples who have lived together for more than one year to enter the union.

The president signed his bill to the cheers of gay rights activists, but angry leaders of his center-right coalition, which includes the UDI Party, refused to attend the signing ceremony.

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Chile: President Proposes Civil Unions Bill

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

The president of Chile has proposed legalising civil unions for gay and straight couples.

Sebastian Pinera said that all couples deserve “respect, dignity and support of the state” in a speech this week.

The bill, which must be approved by Congress, would give gay couples and straight unmarried couples the same inheritance and social welfare rights as married couples.

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Chile: A Thousand March Against Marriage Equality

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Anti Gay Marriage March in ChileRoughly one thousand people took to the streets of Santiago, Chile on Saturday in support of the nation’s ban on gay marriage, the Spanish news agency EFE reported.

The march, organized by the Christian conservative groups Transforma Chile and Muevete Chile, stepped off at Plaza Italia and ended at the Palacio de la Moneda.

“Today the Chilean constitution and the law defines marriage as a union between a man and woman, but this is daily threatened by the influence of the homosexual lobby that day by day take more force to lobby Parliament,” the coalition said on its website.

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Chile: Civil Unions Bill To Be Introduced Next Week

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Chile President Sebastian Pinera is expected next week to introduce a bill that would legalize civil unions for gay and lesbian couples, the Santiago-based La Tercera reported.

Pinera’s bill would allow gay and straight couples who have lived together for more than one year to enter a legal contract called the Non-Marital Cohabitation Agreement.

The conservative lawmaker told daily El Mercurio that his measure seeks to “protect and safeguard” the civil rights of couples living outside of marriage and “safeguard the dignity of those couples, whether of opposite sex or even the same sex.”

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Chile: Government Considering Civil Unions

Monday, July 11th, 2011

Chile Civil UnionsThe government of Chile appears prepared to consider legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples.

Bloomberg reports:

Chile’s government is preparing legislation that would legally recognize civil unions between gay couples, newspaper La Tercera reported today. The bill, which could be presented to Congress by next week, would grant legal rights to gay couples who have lived together for more than one year, the Santiago-based newspaper reported, citing a copy of the draft legislation it obtained.

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Chile: President Pushes for Domestic Partnership Law

Monday, May 30th, 2011

While the world did not end when Argentina became one of the few South American nations to legalize same-sex marriage, Chile has been reluctant to follow suit.

Still, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has said that he wants Congress to legalize a certain amount of civil unions in that nation in order to “regulate and protect” the rights of more than two million unmarried couples in that nation, which include a large number of lesbian and gay couples.

Pinera has stressed that the proposal will not make way for same-sex marriages in the nation, and said that his belief that “marriage in its essence and nature is between a man and a woman” remains unchanged. However, he did campaign on domestic partnerships, but not all within his conservative coalition can be too happy with it.

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Chile: Activists Call for National Marriage Equality March

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

President Sebastian PineraChile’s largest gay rights group Movimiento Chileno de Minorias Sexuales (MOVILH) on Tuesday called for a national march in support of gay marriage.

“It’s time to mobilize,” the group said. “It seems the only way officials listen. We are confident that we will be thousands and thousands of people.”

The June 25 demonstration will be held in the nation’s capital and largest city, Santiago, starting at 3PM at the Plaza Italia.

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