National gathering of Argentinean attorneys rejects homosexual ‘marriage’ as unconstitutional
Image via Wikipedia Law professors attending Argentina ’s most important conference on civil law have voted to declare that the nation’s recently-passed homosexual “ marriage ” legislation is unconstitutional. The legal scholars also recommended the prohibition of homosexual adoption , and condemned the legal concept of multiple mothers or fathers of the same child as incompatible with the nation’s civil code. The resolutions were passed at the biannual National Symposium on Civil Law (Jornadas Nacionales de Derecho Civil), held this year at the prestigious National University of Tucumán from September 29 to October 1. In a 32-24 vote, the commission assigned to the topic of homosexual “marriage” rejected Argentina’s Law 26.618 as unconstitutional. The law, which creates the institution of homosexual “marriage,” was passed in July of 2010 by the National Congress and signed into law by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner . The attorneys also voted 22-8 to recommend that t...