Spain legalized marriage equality in 2005 but the law has ricocheted throught the country's court system in a series of legal challenges from conservatives. Just now, however, the Spanish Constitutional Court ruled that the seven year old law is fully legal. Details follow. 

Challenges to the law initially formed around cries that marriage equality was unconstitutional but later evolved to a separate and unequal argument that gays deserved legal rights but shouldn't call it "marriage." 

That drama thankfully ended today. 

According to El Pais:

The decision was adopted by a majority of the whole, made up of 11 of the 12 judges comprising the Constitutional Court. Francisco Hernando, elected at the proposal of the PP, has refrained from intervening for taking decisions on this law in his previous position as president of the General Council of the Judiciary.

The ruling strengthens and shields one law that has so far more than 22,000 couples marry. Twelve countries in the world have recognized this right, Spain was one of the first to pick up on your basic legislation.

(Source and image: El Pais)

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