Related articles:BogotColombia, Nov 15, 2010 / 02:49 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Colombias Constitutional Court has voted to uphold the sanctity of marriage in the country.
The court ruled 5-4 in favor of the Colombian Attorney General, Alejandro Ordonez Maldonado on Nov. 11. In its statement, the court said could not change the legal definition of marriage in Colombia, thus striking down a lawsuit filed by attorney Felipe Montoya Castro.
Montoya filed a lawsuit in September 2009 arguing that the words man and woman should be removed from the civil code in order to allow same-sex unions.
However, the court reaffirmed the wording that has been part of Colombian law since the 19th century. It defines marriage as a contract through which one man and one woman unite together for the purpose of living together, procreating and mutually helping one another.
The court said Montoyas arguments that the traditional definition of marriage violates the right to equality, as well as the right to not be treated cruelly, were insufficient.
Ordonez said the plaintiffs in the case did not present clear, certain, specific, pertinent and sufficient reasons for changing the definition of marriage.
Same-sex unions in Latin America are only legal in Argentina and Mexico City.
Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.