Couple Jailed For Same-Sex Marriage Freed

(AP)  A couple jailed on suspicion of having a same-sex wedding was freed Monday after a doctor determined that the groom is a hermaphrodite.

Prosecutor Jose Planas ordered the couple jailed after their civil wedding Friday, when the priest scheduled to perform the religious ceremony the following day said he received a call saying the groom, Jesus Alejandro Martinez, was actually a woman.

Same-sex marriages are illegal in Paraguay, and news of the arrest became the talk of the nation.

Planas had threatened Martinez with five years in prison for falsification of documents, and said he could charge the bride, Blanca Estigarribia, with complicity.

But the couple was released Monday. A doctor who inspected Martinez in jail ruled that he is a hermaphrodite, with atrophied female genitals and well-developed male genitals, according to the couple's lawyer, Jorge Cantero.

"Conclusion: He is a man," Cantero said.

He also said the document in the name of Jesus Alejandro Martinez is legitimate, meaning the forgery charges wouldn't have held up.

"So this case goes into the archives," he said. "It will remain as an anecdote for the media and a bad experience for my clients."

Martinez, who has some feminine traits, said he suspected an ex-girlfriend made the accusation to the priest.

"I always felt like a man, with no feminine inclination," he said.

Martinez said the couple would continue to live along the border near the Argentine city of Clorinda — "where everybody knows us and loves us."

[mck1957]

Why on earth should gay couples be jailed? Where is the crime? Supposedly, in America we still have the right to the pursuit of happiness in whatever form it takes as long as we don''t step on other people''s toes or intrude on their rights. If two consenting adults of the same *** love each other, who''s business is it, but theirs? I am heterosexual, but hey if they don''t splash in my mudpuddle, I''ll stay out of theirs. My resentment comes in the thought that taxpayer dollars actually are spent to jail innocent people.

[editorkim]

scorp, I''d call you a hypocrite, because here you are being closed-minded also to a group of people living amongst you, namely, religious people. You are pigeonholing all of them as fanatical, and yes, hands were meant to feel things, eyes to see things, ears to hear things, but a.s.s.es were NOT meant to receive things... next point?

You might also consider that not all religious people or even Christians are ignorant to the fact that the religion originated well before the Bible, and that the Bible leaves a lot of things out that were seen as too "mystical." Matter of fact, there are also plenty of us that know that Genesis is a creation myth, just like that of any other culture, not to be taken literally. So when you ask science to prove that the earth was created in seven days, keep that in mind. We''re not so ignorant as you are, as you are the first here to have engaged in name-calling and "stone-throwing". See: editorkim, you are ignorant!!

[vnveteran72]

its the ''''i hate you so much but i need your blessing to exist'''' kinda mentality..present on most athiest liberal homosexuals


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Posted by libsluv2spit at 12:56 AM : Jun 17, 2008
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More like the Toe-Tapping Wide Stancers of the Reich Wing Neocon Nazi "Family Values" Squad......

[vnveteran72]

With all the religion freaks and bible quoters hitting this site, I''''m forced to ask myself one question: where is gopsoccermom?


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Posted by missybelle at 03:38 PM : Jun 17, 2008
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Or singinretardd???.....LMMFAO

[editorkim]

scorp, when science proves that an *** was intended as an entry point and not an exit, I''ll agree with you...

Its "natural" purpose is not for homosexual ***,,, do you refute that?

[editorkim]

In response to OldThought - your sentiments are completely unfounded. My religion does not cause me to live in fear, it gives me peace. Also, a true Christian would not condemn you to Hell, as it is not up to us as people, but God, to judge. So those holier-than-thou "*** you for this or that" people are in fact abusing our religion, but you will find that the majority of Christians practice forgiveness and are not judgmental. YOU, on the other hand, are showing your own narrow-mindedness and shallowness by pigeonholing all religious people and blaming the world''s problems on religion. The truth it, it''s closed-minded, ignorant, and inflammatory people like yourself that are the root of most, if not all, evil, religious or not.

[janeyre-2009]

Well he really is a man. I am happy for them. It is truly a case of mistaken identity... He was born that way. I wonder about his internal organs. Is he male in that regard as well?

[Netterz]

Modern day religion is created BY man, to make people FEAR certain other people, who are supposed holy by forcing people to believe it is the ONLY religion. The Roman hierarchy political figures needed to devise a plan to not just control there own people, but ALL people, no matter where they went in the world. Before Roman Catholicism was created, there were many religions, that all had the same principles, they consisted of earth based religions, love and respect for mother earth, and love of all man. The supposed Christianity, as well as other so called ''religions'' of today, are nothing more than places to scare the majority of ALL mankind, to follow the rules and laws of a few select men and occasionally women, brainwashing the majority to give there money, minds, and supposed souls, to the select few. Its politics, no matter how you want to classify it. FEAR. You will go to hell, if you do not do as I say. You will go to hell, if you do not follow the scriptures. Written by MAN. Even now, every day, war is created based on the religions that different men/women follow all over the world. Christianity has been forced down the throats of people all over the world, as the ONLY way to go to heaven. Genocides all over the world, going on as we speak, based on religions, hiding behind the true veil...which is really politics. POLITICS IS RELIGION.

[editorkim]

All of you that are spewing hatred at Christians for being anti-homosexuality, did it ever occcur to you that it is blatantly UN-natural? Wouldn''t you agree that if you had two male horses, dogs, cows, etc. that started going at it that SOMETHING is WRONG?! It''s not just bible-based, it''s a nature-based belief. It''s strange, and there''s nothing natural about it.

[wogerwabbit]

Catholicism or Mormonism. Neither of those is Christian.

Posted by caliengineer at 12:21 PM

You turkey! If it weren''t for Catholics there would be no Christians at all! You are denying your parentage.