Assignment #6 LGBT Rights Talk

During our lecture with Mariano about Argentina and LGBT rights I learned a lot about same-sex marriage and the lengths that were gone through to get those rights in Argentina. Mariano talked about how Argentina was the first Latin American Country to legalize same-sex marriage. The law was passed in July of 2010, and it was passed mostly by the socialist parties in the House of Deputies. One common misconception we talked about in class was how everyone in the US and other places always talks about Pope Francis being so progressive and accepting of LGBT and other causes, when in reality that's not really how he is. Compared to other leaders of the Catholic Church he may be better but that he was actually against the bill to legalize same-sex marriage. Cristina Kirschner was one of the main people who were fighting for the bill, and she went under a lot of fire to support it. Mariano also talked about how there would be huge protests against the passing of the bill. In order to combat the protesters, those who were fighting for the bill would break up into small teams and spread out across the city to make their presence known, because their numbers weren't as big but they wanted to be heard.