Cuba to consider same-sex unions

Well, this is amazing and I salute them if they do it. The United States really does risk becoming the ugly cousin surrounded by the attractive ones, now that Canada to the north, Mexico to the south and Cuba to the east are all going toward recognizing their gay citizens are such:

And now this country is on the verge of enacting a law that gives same-sex couples some form of legal status.

"We have to abolish any form of discrimination against those persons," said Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba's National Assembly. "We are trying to see how to do that, whether it should be to grant them the right to marry or to have same-sex unions."

Alarcon said he expects Cuba's communist government will soon enact a law to do one or the other. "We have to redefine the concept of marriage," he said. "Socialism should be a society that does not exclude anybody."
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How ironic is this? While a country that successive U.S. governments have called a totalitarian state is moving toward expanding the rights of gays and lesbians, the president of the United States - the world's leading democracy - wants to restrict their rights.

Ironic indeed.