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Ex-President Gaviria correctly claims that a equitable and sustainable peace deal in Colombia perhaps will require transitional justice mechanisms not only to broker peace with the guerrillas, but also other actors involved in the internal conflict, such as state agents and funders.

In Christianity's origins sex did not have much importance. The essence of Jesus of Nazaret's message, say teologans, can be summarized into two ideas: love your neighbor and prepare yourself, with faith and repentance, for the Final Judgement.

President Gaviria's ideas about peace are extremely useful if they are taken as the author suggests: as thoughts for a debate where they would have to be made more precise and adapted. But interpreted as some have done— like finished proposals— they are as problematic as incomplete.

Viviane Morales' main argument for a referendum regarding adoption by same-sex couples bases itself on an incomplete idea of democacy: democracy as the rule of the majority. However, it is precisely this lone premise that is incompatible with our democratic model.

Promiscuity, instability, pedophilia, HIV, among other opinions, threathen the LGBTI community members' lives and exercise of rights.

When deciding a case where the law is ambiguous, should a judge impose their moral convictions, even if it affects the law's coherence? Or should they protect the law's consistency, even if this goes against their personal morals?

Only in Colombia can someone like Álvaro Uribe Vélez accuse someone like Antanas Mockus of cheating.

Cajamarca-- This week, in a session of the city council meeting of this corner of Tolima, it was clear that the future of peace is in municipalities like this one, as the national Government and the United Nations have said.

If the Colombian Constitutional Court trusts that heterosexuals and homosexuals alike can decide who makes up their families, the debate about homoparental families should not end.