Gay couples to get health benefits
From Times Wire Reports
In the first nationwide law of its kind in Latin America, gay couples in Colombia won the same social security rights as their heterosexual counterparts.
The Constitutional Court decision, embraced by rights groups but opposed by the Roman Catholic Church, extended to same-sex couples the health benefits long enjoyed by heterosexuals in common-law marriages.
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