Spanish Prime Minister gives interview to the top gay magazine

Spanish Prime Minister gives interview to the top gay magazine
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By h.b. - Feb 25, 2008 - 12:29 PM

The cover of Zero magazine which goes on sale today

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has promised to defend the rights won for gay and lesbian people

The Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, is on the cover of the Spanish national gay magazine, Zero, for the third time this month. He uses an interview with the magazine, which goes on sale today, to issue a warning to the Partido Popular that he will not allow rights to be denied to any family in Spain. Zapatero told the magazine that Spain is governed by the law, and not by Catholicism.

The interview comes as the Socialists hope for support from the gay and lesbian community in the general election, and the Prime Minister has promised to extend the equality law to ensure that any homophobia is met head on. ‘We will make sure that not a single step backwards is taken on the land we have won’, he said.

Mariano Rajoy has already said that he wants to remove the right to adopt from gay couples in Spain, and he has also said he wants gay and lesbian marriage to be called something else. While the PP actions against the gay community are not in the party manifesto, the party meanwhile has issued a challenge against gay marriage in the Spanish Constitutional Court.

The Partido Popular declined to take part in the current election special of Zero magazine.

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