Same Sex Marriages In Ecuador

Same sex marriages in Ecuador

Introduction

Equal marriage in Ecuador. Equal marriage undoubtedly one of the most controversial issues throughout history, the present essay aims. In Ecuador the fight of the LGBT community has been evident to make their rights taken into account. A long time has elapsed for society to be consistent with the respect of human dignity and truly acted based on the principles of democratic pluralism, the right to equal marriage must be recognized as a way to claim a historically marginalized group.

Developing

The issue of equal marriage within the areas will be covered: historical, social, political, legal and religious, in addition several problems derive from the lack of approval of equal civil marriage; That is why this issue should be addressed even if socially is not admitted to one hundred percent. It is necessary to correct certain problems that affect a part of the population that, for not being majority, cannot freely enjoy and execute their rights. Through a bibliographic investigation, more in depth will be investigated about the struggle for the delivery of this right to lesbian, gay, trans and intersexual people.

It is a difficult process, and that seems to have no solution, as with the struggles for the elimination of other prejudices such as sexism and/or racism, but it is a necessary work. Homosexual culture, homosexual subject and human rights. In ancient Rome, homosexuality was considered as normal, that the vast majority of the place practiced.

This totally changed when religion and other types of investigations intervened. In the Middle Ages the Church intervened in the whole issue of homosexuality, where you could already notice the different discriminations and obstacles that were imposed on LGBT people.

This created a great problem of violence, since the individuals who were homosexual were condemned, because for the church it was considered a sin. This could not be combined at all, since all torture and punishments were already in the name of the Holy Inquisition. The story is accompanied by countless discriminatory manifestations to people belonging to the LGBT community. It is common to hear about homophobia defined as hatred and rejection of homosexuality or homosexual people. This problem is still evident today.

History and present of homosexuality: critical analysis of a conflicting phenomenon. In Ecuador during 1997, homosexuality was considered a crime typified in article 516 of the Criminal Code of Ecuador, whose prison sentence was between four and eight years. A group of about 100 homosexuals in the city of Cuenca was the reason for gender and human rights organizations to initiate an unconstitutionality action of the article mentioned before the Constitutional Court of that time. Towards November of the same year, the Court declares the unconstitutionality of article 516 and its first paragraph.

It is important to mention that the struggle for social recognition by the community of gays, lesbians, transsexuals, bisexual and intersex (LGBTI) has resolved that homosexual couples want to marry. From this fact the issue of equal civil marriage arises, but it is evident that there are sectors in society that are against this political proposal such as the Catholic Church, the pro -life and pro -rights movement, family and freedom life, etc. Throughout history, the LGBTI movement in Ecuador has fought so as not to be excluded from social life, some leaders have constantly fought so that their civil rights are respected. 

The path to political-social claim and the need to look for spaces so that their proposals and reasons are heard was gaining greater impulse in the media where a constant flow of information was framed. The politicization of the LGBTI movement in the debate on equal marriage in printed media of Ecuador. The Constitution of Montecristi of 2008, by explaining the de facto union as an act where: the stable and monogamous union between two people free of marriage bond that form a de fact.

conclusion

It will generate the same rights and obligations that families have constituted through marriage. This led to homosexuals managed to specify a legal union with adherence to the right granted by the Constitution. On June 12, 2019, the equal marriage of civil characteristic is approved by the Constitutional Court of Ecuador, thus extending the rights enshrined in the Magna Carta to heterosexual persons in relation to their right to marriage, towards couples of the same sex they wish to consecrate in law their option for civil marriage.