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Costa Rica may have accidentally legalized gay marriage

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Costa Rica may have accidentally legalized gay marriage Empty Costa Rica may have accidentally legalized gay marriage

Post by Ben Reilly Sun Jul 07, 2013 5:08 pm

(For purposes of NewsFix, Central America is in South America, dangit!)

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Conservative Costa Rican lawmakers are getting a lesson in the importance of reading the fine print.

They were mortified on Friday after realizing that they may have accidentally approved language making same-sex unions legal when they passed a piece of legislation this week.

President Laura Chinchilla on late Thursday signed the bill governing social services and marriage regulations for young people.

The mostly conservative members of Congress didn't notice that the final version of the bill had changed earlier language that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

http://news.yahoo.com/costa-rica-may-legalized-gay-civil-unions-015344976.html;_ylt=AwrNUbAmktlRPUoAsULQtDMD
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