Apropos a reader’s comment in the New York Times comment forum:
Time to add the Maradona-Messi group to the list. Yesterday, Argentina’s Senate approved a measure backed by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner that made it the first nation in predominantly Catholic Latin America to legalize gay marriage.
Proponents are celebrating this as a watershed of modern sensibilities over entrenched, antiquated religious tradition. Mexico City, which authorized gay marriages last year, has offered an all expense paid honeymoon to the first Argentine gay couple to wed. In addition to the stay in Mexico’s capital, the newly weds are also being offered a romantic getaway to Cancun.