SPAIN WILL LEGALIZE GAY UNIONS--ZAPATERO: From Reuters

Spain will legalize gay unions, although it may not call them marriages, incoming prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Thursday, but he did not set a time-frame for the move.

"We are going to present a bill to set gay unions on the same footing as marriage,'' he said in an interview on Spain's Telecinco television channel. "From a semantic point of view marriage may be a concept that does not cover this type of union, but it will have the same legal effects,'' he
added.

During the outgoing center-right government's two terms in office, opposition politicians in mainly Catholic Spain made several attempts to legalize same-sex marriage. Zapatero, who swept to a surprise victory in general elections on Sunday, made legalizing gay unions one of his campaign pledges.

The Vatican condemns same sex unions.

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