(Bogota, Colombia) - Colombia's Congress approved a bill this week granting same-sex couples rights similar to their straight counterparts, a move seen as the biggest advance for homosexuals in the Roman Catholic country. The measure, supported by President Alvaro Uribe but opposed by the church, grants gay couples living together for more than two years the same social security and estate inheritance guarantees as heterosexuals in common law marriages. "This makes Colombia a more democratic, more open place," said activist Virgilio Barco, son of a former president by the same name. "It marks the first time that legislation like this has passed at a national level in Latin America."
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