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Argentina rebuffs church in passing gay rights law
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The Catholic Church's failure to derail a gay marriage law in Argentina shows once-powerful clergymen losing their influence in Latin America, where pressure is growing for more liberal social legislation.
The law, which lets gay couples marry and adopt children, was approved last week to the cheers of hundreds of gay couples gathered outside Congress despite opposition from churchmen, who called gay families "perverse."
"We shouldn't be naive: this isn't just a political struggle, it's a strategy to destroy God's plan," Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the head of the Church in Argentina, said in urging lawmakers to reject the bill.
Mexico City and Uruguay passed similar legislation last year, and more liberal laws on social issues are likely in the region.
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has vowed to give more rights to same-sex couples, and Dilma Rousseff, a leading candidate in Brazil's presidential race, has said she favours the legalization of abortion in a country that has the world's largest Catholic population.
"People are still Catholic and they still believe in the fundamentals ... but they no longer agree with what (the Church) says regarding morality," said Ana Maria Bidegain, a religious studies professor at Florida International University.
The vast majority of Latin Americans live now in urban areas where people have "their own personal ways" to live Catholicism, and highly publicized sex abuse scandals among priests worldwide have also had an impact, she said.
Extending gay rights and other social legislation being pushed through by the region's politicians suggest Latin Americans are becoming more liberal in contrast with the Church's unbending views on sexual freedom, contraceptives and abortion.
For Socialist Party deputy Ricardo Cuccovillo, the strong influence the Church still has on some Argentine lawmakers is because they "don't understand that the Church
plays a role in the field of faith only, and deputies have to play a role in the field of democracy."
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