Costa Rica Supreme Court strikes down same-sex marriage ban
The Apex Court or Supreme Court of Costa Rica found the country’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional and discriminatory.
This decision follows opinion [text, PDF, in Spanish] given just seven months ago by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights [official website] that same-sex couples have the same rights to marry as any opposite-sex couple.
As a result of the Supreme Court ruling, lawmakers will have 18 months to adjust or midifiy the current law or else the ban will cease to exist and same-sex marriage will automatically become legal.
Earlier it was in May 2006 that Costa Rica’s Supreme court voted 5-2 to uphold the law forbidding same-sex marriage, finding that the law was constitutional.
Source: Jurist
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