Costa Rica Supreme Court rules that same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional

[Clovis]

Wow, nice one Costa Rica. It doesn't mean it's legal yet, but apparently they have 18 months to change the law to conform to this ruling.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-45138687

Costa Rica's Supreme Court has ruled that the country's same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional and discriminatory.

The court ruling gives the country's legislators a time limit of 18 months to change the current law.
The president welcomed the ruling, saying he wants to guarantee "no person will face discrimination for their sexual orientation".

However many lawmakers are evangelicals who strongly oppose gay marriage.

[Curls]

Man same sex bans are fucking dumb, i wish it'd just not even be a thought any more. It should be less than casual conversation. It should be a shrug and a "yeah cool".

[Clovis]

It seems that monotheistic religion is when it started - many of the pagan religions didn't really give much of a shit about it. Strange, that. I think a general decrease in religious zealotry around the world has been part of the reason for softening of laws, as well as popular TV shows such as Will & Grace showing people that they can have empathy towards gay people too - how quaint!

[Sableye]

same sex marriage wasn't even much of a big deal to the church back in the middle ages or even up to the modern age. There's accounts of marriages between men and between women being married in churches as well as just the recognized concept of two people living together sharing everything as if they were married.

[Borealis]

So puritanism is to blame?

[Sableye]

I've read sources that make the case that marriage becomming a legal concept in the 1700s where you suddenly had the force of law intervening on what used to be a purely church directed activity

[Spectre1406]