Prime Minister of Spain
Complete text of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero’s speech, during the plenary session of Congress, supporting reform of the Civil Code to allow marriage between people of the same sex.
We are not legislating, honorable members, for a far away and unknown people. We are extending the opportunity for happiness to our neighbors, co-workers, friends, and our families: at the same time, we are making a more decent society, because a decent society is one that does not humiliate its members.
Freedom and Equality
La Libertad y La Igualdad
by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain
June 30, 2005, Madrid