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Both parties continue to play up their signature issues as well. The Socialists have made their social initiatives - legalizing gay marriage, easing divorce laws, requiring gender parity in political parties, and creating a comprehensive law against domestic violence - a primary talking point, and have promised, as Zapatero said in Monday...
Oh, yes - the movies. The Other Boleyn Girl is based on the Philippa Gregory novel that wove the melodrama of Henry's rule into a bodice-ripping yarn. Not that the known facts aren't salacious enough: the King's impatience with his wife, Catherine of Aragon, in providing him...
For the Catholic Church, the dramatic increase in Spain's divorce rate underlines the moral threat it perceives from Zapatero's government. At a December rally in Madrid to "defend the Christian family," ? Cardinal Augustín ? García-Gasco lambasted Socialist initiatives, ? saying, "The culture...
Certainly, Spaniards no longer seem scandalized by the prospect of divorce. Alberto Rubio founded divorcioexpress.com, a website that, for less than $600, lets partners seal an uncontested divorce via the Internet. "We facilitate about 100 divorces a month," he says. "But we're not promoting divorce, just making it more...
For Jiménez, there is no doubt that some old values have been lost. In the past, she says, "family was always the most important thing. It would never have entered my mind to separate." Still, thanks to her children, she's become more accustomed to the idea of...