Panama: Supreme Court rejects recognition of homosexual marriage

The union between same -sex people “does not enjoy conventional and constitutional recognition”, believes the institution, which had been seized by several couples.

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The Supreme Court of Panama rejected Wednesday 1 Mars The recognition of homosexual marriage, in a judgment approved by six of its nine magistrates. The institution has been seized since 2016 from several remedies from homosexual couples against the family code of this country since 2016. This one recognizes only the marriage between a man and a woman.

“The right to egalitarian marriage is nothing more than an aspiration which, although legitimate for the groups concerned, is neither in the category of a human right nor a fundamental right”, had Already estimated the Panamanian Court in a judgment dated February 16.

“Preserve the human species, and therefore society”

Applicating couples invoked the unconstitutionality of these provisions to request recognition of their marriage celebrated in other countries.

However, “despite changes that can take place in reality”, homosexual marriage “does not enjoy conventional and constitutional recognition” in Panama, according to the judgment approved on Wednesday.

The standards imposed by the family code reserving marriage for the union of a man and a woman “are objective and rationally justified by the general interest of giving preference to these unions which can base families, preserve the human species and therefore society “, according to the Supreme Court of Panama.