{"id":27082,"date":"2011-07-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/to-congress-for-equal-marriage\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:42:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:42:17","slug":"to-congress-for-equal-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/to-congress-for-equal-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"To Congress, for equal marriage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despu\u00e9s de varios meses de espera, la Corte Constitucional dio a conocer su decisi\u00f3n frente a la demanda presentada por varias organizaciones como Colombia Diversa y DeJuSticia, as\u00ed como por otros ciudadanos, en la que se le ped\u00eda reconocer a las parejas del mismo sexo el derecho a contraer matrimonio civil. Y aunque las declaraciones oficiales sobre la decisi\u00f3n generan algunas dudas, varias cosas han quedado claras.<\/p>\n<p>Lo primero es que, aunque la Corte ten\u00eda todos los argumentos jur\u00eddicos necesarios para ampliar el matrimonio civil a las parejas del mismo sexo, opt\u00f3 por no hacerlo de manera directa e inmediata. Esto supone seguir aplazando la ciudadan\u00eda plena para las parejas del mismo sexo, pues ahora tendr\u00e1n que esperar a que el Congreso entre en acci\u00f3n en los pr\u00f3ximos dos a\u00f1os para que puedan registrar sus uniones, o a que no lo haga. Pero en cualquier de los dos casos, desde ahora deber\u00e1n ser reconocidas y respetadas las familias homosexuales. <\/p>\n<p>Y eso es lo segundo que queda claro con la decisi\u00f3n: las uniones de parejas del mismo sexo constituyen familia y como tal, deben recibir una protecci\u00f3n constitucional integral e igualitaria. Para la Corte, la legislaci\u00f3n colombiana no garantiza los derechos de las familias homosexuales, y esto implica un d\u00e9ficit de protecci\u00f3n que debe ser corregido, pues es discriminatorio. Para ello, adem\u00e1s de las uniones maritales de hecho, que ya son una realidad en el pa\u00eds, pero que resultan insuficientes, deber\u00e1 asegurarse a las parejas del mismo sexo que deseen formalizar su convivencia el mismo nivel de protecci\u00f3n que se ofrece al matrimonio. Ah\u00ed es donde debe actuar el Congreso. <\/p>\n<p>Queda claro tambi\u00e9n que la Constituci\u00f3n no niega la posibilidad del matrimonio civil para las parejas homosexuales. Con su decisi\u00f3n, la Corte reconoce que el matrimonio heterosexual debe ser protegido, pero eso no implica que deba ser la \u00fanica forma de uni\u00f3n civil que deba ser garantizada por el Estado. <\/p>\n<p>En este sentido, aunque la decisi\u00f3n de la Corte no ampl\u00eda inmediatamente el derecho a contraer matrimonio civil a las parejas del mismo sexo, s\u00ed abri\u00f3 la puerta para el matrimonio igualitario, pues es claro que la Constituci\u00f3n no lo proh\u00edbe. <\/p>\n<p>A partir de este momento el Congreso est\u00e1 llamado entonces a crear una regulaci\u00f3n que proteja de manera integral a las familias conformadas por parejas del mismo sexo. Y aunque tiene libertad para configurar dicha regulaci\u00f3n, debe tambi\u00e9n respetar unos m\u00ednimos constitucionales. Durante estos dos a\u00f1os, el legislativo podr\u00e1 optar por ampliar el matrimonio a las parejas del mismo sexo, pues eso no lo proh\u00edbe la Constituci\u00f3n, o por crear una regulaci\u00f3n distinta, siempre que tenga el mismo nivel de protecci\u00f3n y que no sea discriminatoria, ni siquiera simb\u00f3licamente. <\/p>\n<p>Como demandante, la decisi\u00f3n no es lo que esperaba, pues siguen diferidos los derechos plenos para las parejas del mismo sexo. Pero reconozco que constituye un avance jur\u00eddico en el camino de la igualdad, pues es la primera vez que se reconoce, y por unanimidad, que dichas parejas conforman familias y que \u00e9stas deben ser protegidas integral y efectivamente. <\/p>\n<p>Pero adem\u00e1s, la decisi\u00f3n abre la puerta para que el matrimonio igualitario sea regulado por el Congreso. Ese al que deber\u00edan tener derecho todas las parejas, sin distinciones fundadas en criterios discriminatorios, por el simple hecho de ser seres humanos con derechos, que viven en un Estado democr\u00e1tico. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, the Constitutional Court acknowledged that same-sex couples are family and soon will be able to marrie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","medium-semana-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>To Congress, for equal marriage! - Dejusticia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/to-congress-for-equal-marriage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"To Congress, for equal marriage!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Finally, the Constitutional Court acknowledged that same-sex couples are family and soon will be able to marrie.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/to-congress-for-equal-marriage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Dejusticia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-07-27T05:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-04-11T12:42:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Diana Guzm\u00e1n\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Diana Guzm\u00e1n\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"NewsArticle\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/to-congress-for-equal-marriage\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/to-congress-for-equal-marriage\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Diana Guzm\u00e1n\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/e037daf83744a73de402b9a7762276f4\"},\"headline\":\"To Congress, for equal marriage!\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-07-27T05:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-11T12:42:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/to-congress-for-equal-marriage\/\"},\"wordCount\":605,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2011\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/to-congress-for-equal-marriage\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/to-congress-for-equal-marriage\/\",\"name\":\"To Congress, for equal marriage! 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