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Esperanza Aguirre criticises the Partido Popular challenge to gay marriage
By h.b. - Jun 18, 2008 - 9:43 PM
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The PP Regional President of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre (on the left) - Photo EFE
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The PP President of Madrid considers that the challenge against gay marriage in the Constitutional Court could be interpreted as an attack on gays.
The Partido Popular President of the Madrid region, Esperanza Aguirre, has met today with a group of Madrid gays and transsexuals.

Aguirre, who many think may still launch a challenge for the leadership of the Partido Popular, told the group that she considers the challenge against the Spanish gay marriage law placed by her party before the Constitutional Court is incorrect.

Aguirre said that she is in favour of people of the same sex getting married, but she considered that the unions should not be called marriages, and that the Government had used the word marriage to ‘poke their finger in the eye of the Catholic Church’. As it was she said the PP challenge to the law was wrong as it has been interpreted as an attack on gay people.

She made her comments after visiting the Madrid Regional Service for the Attention to Homosexuals and Transsexuals.


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