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• GAY MARRIAGE LEGALIZED BRA AFTER QUEEN GIV ROYAL STAMP OF APPROVAL
• FIRST COUPL WED AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL UK
• GAY MARRIAGE

GAY MARRIAGE LEGALIZED BRA AFTER QUEEN GIV ROYAL STAMP OF APPROVAL

July 17, 2013, 2:09 PM UTCLONDON -- Bra has legalized gay marriage after Queen Elizabeth II gave her royal stamp of approval on of Commons Speaker John Berw told lawmakers that the royal assent had been given — the day after the bill to legalize same-sex marriage England and Wal cleared Parliament. It clears the way for the first gay marriag next summer. The bill enabl gay upl to get married both civil and relig ceremoni England and Wal.

It also will allow upl who had prevly entered to a civil partnership to nvert their relatnship to a Associated PrsRelated:Costa Ri may get gay marriage after legislature's 'accintal' voteFirst gay marriage celebrated FranceNew Zealand be 13th untry to legalize gay marriage. The first same-sex marriag Bra were held early Saturday morng after gay marriage beme legal at midnight. “Congratulatns to the gay upl who have already been married – and my bt wish to those about to be on this historic day, ” Uned Kgdom Prime Mister David Cameron tweeted Saturday morng.

Polls show about two-thirds of people the untry support gay unns, the Associated Prs reports. Gay upl England have been allowed to enter “civil partnerships, ” nferrg the same legal rights as marriage, sce 2005.

FIRST COUPL WED AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL UK

Bra banned schools and thori om “promotg” homosexualy until 2003.

Scholars and the general public beme creasgly terted the issue durg the late 20th century, a perd when attus toward homosexualy and laws regulatg homosexual behavur were liberalized, particularly wtern Europe and the Uned issue of same-sex marriage equently sparked emotnal and polil clash between supporters and opponents.

Cultur that openly accepted homosexualy, of which there were many, generally had nonmaral tegori of partnership through which such bonds uld be exprsed and socially regulated.

GAY MARRIAGE

Relig and secular expectatns of marriage and sexualy Over time the historil and tradnal cultur origally rerd by the lik of Bachofen and Man slowly succumbed to the homogenizatn imposed by lonialism. In other s, the cultural homogeney supported by the domant relign did not rult the applitn of doctre to the civic realm but may nohels have fostered a smoother seri of discsns among the cizenry: Belgium and Spa had legalized same-sex marriage, for stance, spe official opposn om their predomant relig stutn, the Roman Catholic Church. Most of the world religns have at some pots their histori opposed same-sex marriage for one or more of the followg stated reasons: homosexual acts vlate natural law or dive tentns and are therefore immoral; passag sacred texts nmn homosexual acts; and relig tradn regniz only the marriage of one man and one woman as valid.