Gay Marriage Around the World | Pew Rearch Center

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• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
• GAY MARRIAGE ACCEPTANCE BY FNISH LUTHERAN ARCHBISHOP PROMPTS MASS RIGNATNS FROM CHURCH; NEARLY 8,000 RIGN OVER WEEKEND

COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023

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GAY MARRIAGE ACCEPTANCE BY FNISH LUTHERAN ARCHBISHOP PROMPTS MASS RIGNATNS FROM CHURCH; NEARLY 8,000 RIGN OVER WEEKEND

However, two prits who were admonished by their bishops for marryg a gay uple took the matter to the Supreme Admistrative Court, which has yet to issue a cisn. Sce the first same-sex marriag took place the Netherlands 2001, more than 30 other jurisdictns have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry, mostly Europe and the Ameris. Argenta 2010Lat Ameri-CaribbeanFirst untry Lat Ameri to allow gay and lbian upl to marry.

Ecuador 2019Lat Ameri-CaribbeanCourt lg ma Ecuador the fifth South Amerin untry to allow gays and lbians to wed.

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The supporters believe that a person do not choose to be gay and is stead born this way. On the flip si, there are people that are agast gay marriage. However, there are still natns around the world that outright ban gay marriage.

Not every untry the world is volved the nversatn surroundg gay marriage, but a large percentage of the world’s natns have eher legalized same-sex marriage, permted gay marriage certa parts of the untry, allows civil unns between dividuals of the same sex, or actively rtricts gay marriage. Of the eighty-eight untri, the number of untri that have legalized gay marriage is a total of twenty-four natns. The untri where gay marriage is legal clu….

In 2001, the Netherlands beme the very first untry to ever legalize gay marriage.