In Colombia, several media outlets have reported that a 20-page Constitutional Court opinion that will bring marriage equality to the country is ready and only awaits a meeting to cast a Court vote.
According to them, sources close to the Court say that the magistrates will vote against one conservative judge’s proposal to annul marriages registered by lower courts, keep civil unions as the only option for couples, and state that only Congress can change marriage laws. The expected vote is 6-3 to defeat this opinion.
Next would come the final vote on a counter-opinion to legalize same-sex marriage. The same 6 out of 9 judges are expected to extend the right to marry to gay couples.
The two pending votes may come on two different days. The media says that everyone will have to wait until after Holy Week for any final action.
We’ll remain perched.
The Perchy Bird 
Amazing how quickly South America is moving in the right direction!
Part of it is that in most, if not all, SA countries marriage is a legal construct and the government doesn’t recognize church marriage.
One gets married at city hall and then goes off and has a whoopty do at the church for that sacrament.
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Exactly.
80% of the continent recognizes same-sex unions in some form. North America barely beats it at 85 but if Peru gets to civil unions in a few years then SA will be the new winner by far.
Expect Chile to get marriage rights before 2018 🙂
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Is the 80% country count, population or something else…
For South America, My guess is that the last 4 will be Bolivia, Paraguay, Guiana and Surinam.
(For North America, Honduras or British Columbia)
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Population count.
Guyana likely last since it still has the sodomy law.
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Re: the previous comments about the last places to get Marriage Equality, British Columbia is part of Canada. I presume you meant the former British Honduras, now Belize.
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