"Last week, Argentina became the first country in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage , and to provide gay couples with all the benefits pertaining thereto. Sadly, the United States, which has traditionally been at the vanguard of human rights developments, finds itself falling behind in one of the great trends of human history," reports Sun-Sentinel. "There are any number of reasons for this: our deeply ingrained religious mores, the generally right-of-center views of our body politic, and a reluctance on the part of timid politicians to unnecessarily energize a dwindling but dedicated group of voters bent on retaliation at the polls." READ MORE