Powered by USC Law http://mylaw.usc.edu/blogCruz In a closely divided decision, the Constitutional Court of Portugal voted 3 to 2 to uphold that country's restriction of marriage to male-female couples against a challenge based on a provision in the Portuguese Constitution forbidding sexual orientation discrimination, <a href="javascript:void(0);/*1249084305715*/">reports</a> the Associated Press.&nbsp; I believe <a href="javascript:void(0);/*1249084573403*/">this</a> is the statement from the Court's web site (but I do not read Portuguese).&nbsp; Unless the Court reverses course some time in the future or the European Court of Human rights accepts and agrees with the appeal of the lesbian couple denied a marriage license, marriage equality there will have to await the approval of Portugal's Parliament, which does not appear to be an imminent prospect. http://mylaw.usc.edu/blogCruz/1/2009/07/Portugals-Marriage-Exclusion-Upheld.cfm 2009-07-31T17:04:20-08:00 sexual orientation discrimination,marriage,Portugal