Pride redux: another Latino step forward

0 Comments Published by les July 16th, 2010 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Hispanic heritage, Politics, Religion, Salt Lake City, SLC.

Editor’s Note: The following is a great piece by Mark Alvarez, our resident contributor who also is an attorney and a frequent commentator on immigration issue.

Who says Latinos are slow for freedom?

Argentina now has marriage equality.

On Wednesday, Luis Majul wrote in his column (Spanish version) for the Argentine daily La Nación:

The heated controversy over marriage equality should not be dominated by political interests and religious interests, but by intellectual honesty and free thought.

Meanwhile, the LDS Church twists over whether or not it was involved in the political battle in Buenos Aires. See here.

Despite the differences in hemisphere and wine quality, Argentina and Utah share some similarities. Judge for yourself with the words from Majul:

Thousands of same-sex couples live in matrimonial harmony, although they cannot yet be married….

[Beyond political and religious posturing] there is a social dynamic that advances strongly and without doing damage. Sooner or later the laws will recognize the rights of thee minorities because there is no political or religious interest that can detain reality much longer.

In Argentina, one particular detention of societal reality ended yesterday. How much longer for the United States and Utah?

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