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This Is What a Fierce Advocate Looks Like

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner supports Argentina's same-sex marriage legislation and gave this interview to a Chinese news crew while visiting the country on a diplomatic mission.
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Argentina is the latest country to consider same-sex marriage rights: the legislature is set to debate the issue today. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner supports the legislation and gave this interview to a Chinese news crew while visiting the country on a diplomatic mission.

Note how she stands up against the Catholic Church -- a huge influence in South America -- for inciting religious violence and discrimination. President Obama, however, doesn't support full marriage equality and has given anti-gay religious leaders prominent roles at his events to try and win religious right support at the polls.

I'd say this is what a fierce advocate looks like. Thanks to Andrés at Blabbeando for the translated video.

(Crossposted from Bilerico Project. Come visit me there to see why both the Washington Post and the Advocate magazine named us one of the top 10 LGBT political blogs in the nation.)

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