CREDIT: AP Images Starting on the 15th of September, same-sex couples in Ecuador will be able to officially register their civil union and have it noted on their national ID cards. Though same-sex marriage remains illegal, the move brings with it a whole host of financial and legal benefits. “If there was any doubt about heterosexual or same-sex civil unions being put on national ID cards, there is none any more,” President Rafael Correa said on the South American network Telesur.

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