Colombia OKs rights for gay couples

¡Ay Dios mio! That's right folks... Colombia. Check out what Gay.com had posted from The Advocate:

Colombia's legislature approved a bill late Thursday granting same-sex couples rights similar to their straight counterparts, the Reuters news agency reported.

The measure grants couples living together for more than two years the same social security and inheritance guarantees as heterosexuals in common-law marriages.

President Alvaro Uribe backed the bill, which cleared Colombia's Senate in February, and is expected to sign it.

http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2007/06/15/5

It amazes me that the United States can't get its act together just to get something simple like this passed. Yet Colombia, which has many more important issues to deal with, not to mention a much smaller gay population, manages to beat out the US in granting more rights to same-sex couples.

I really am speechless...

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