New appeals and injunctions challenge iconography Monday, August 15, 2016 Row over use of religious symbols in City reignitesMaría Rachid submitted a bill that would prohibit the installation of images or symbols that promote religious practice in public spaces. Maria Rachid, director of the Institute against Discrimination in Buenos Aires City — who has submitted several bills that aims to remove religious symbols at the Buenos Aires City legislature — pointed to the Catholic Church’s growing influence for preventing the advancement of key measures that would further separate the powers of Church and State. A different billIn another upcoming court case, the Buenos Aires City’s High Court of Justice (TSJ) will evaluate whether priests and nuns can continue working in Buenos Aires City public hospitals. The TSJ must rule on this, after the Buenos Aires City Appeals court accepted an appeal filed on July 15 by the Buenos Aires City Let’s Change (Cambiemos) administration headed, by Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, asking for the injunction to be declared unconstitutional. And for years he has refused to back a same-sex marriage equality law, until he relented in 2009 when a judge ruled that the Buenos Aires City government should accept a gay couple’s petition for marriage.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald August 15, 2016 02:48 UTC