El matrimonio civil en Colombia, análisis a la sentencia hito su -214 de 2016 de la corte constitucional en garantía de los derechos de las parejas del mismo sexo

Abstract

This research article develops the real concept of civil marriage in Colombia, from the Hito Sentence SU-214 of the year 2014 of the Constitutional Court, in which it is recognized that the union of same-sex couples has legal validity through of the solemn civil marriage contract, which grants the same rights and obligations to a couple that wants to form a family independent of their sexual orientation. Thus, it can be consulted in countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa, Argentina, Canada, Brazil and Uruguay, countries that have legislated equal marriage, guaranteeing the protection of human rights, enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this determining that there is still a legal void on the part of the Congress of the Republic of Colombia, which has been protected by the Constitutional Court through its jurisprudence in order to guarantee the rights of said social minority.