(CP) – Costa Rica became the first Central American country to legalize same-sex marriage Tuesday as a 2018 court decision striking down the country’s ban on gay marriage went into effect. “Costa Rica officially recognizes equal marriage,” President Carlos Alvarado, who won the 2018 election on a pro-gay marriage platform, wrote in a tweet translated from Spanish.
“Today we celebrate freedom, equality, and democratic institutions. May empathy and love be the compass that allows us to get ahead and build a country where all people fit,” Alvarado added.
The law changed after a Supreme Court ruling in August 2018 gave Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly 18 months to alter the law on marriage that the court deemed to be unconstitutional or else the ban on same-sex marriages would automatically be nullified.
Earlier this month, a group of more than 20 conservative lawmakers introduced a motion to delay the court’s ruling an additional 18 months. However, their bid was rejected in a 33 to 20 vote, according to Gay Star News. At midnight on Tuesday, the ban was officially lifted. READ MORE
They are not Christians because you cannot live against God’s Laws and day you are living for the Lord. Lesbians and gays are not children of God. Unless they confess their sins and repent, turning to the Lord and turn from their filth, they will perish in the Lake of Fire for all eternity.
God’s Word is not negotiable and we are not to take away from his word nor add to his Word.
People need to wake up and repent, confess their sins and ask the Lord for forgiveness. Time is running out.