Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry.
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- CHRISTIANS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE HAVE A ‘PICK AND MIX’ APPROACH TO FAH, SAYS W STREETG
- GAY MARRIAGE: SUPREME COURT ISSU NOTICE TO CENTRE ON SAME SEX MATRIMONY
- CENTRE REERAT OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAG
- WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
- GAY MARRIAGE
CHRISTIANS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE HAVE A ‘PICK AND MIX’ APPROACH TO FAH, SAYS W STREETG
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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.
Netherlands2001EuropeFirst untry to legalize same-sex marriage after Parliament passed the law December Zealand 2013Asia-PacificFirst untry the Asia-Pacific regn to allow gays and lbians to 2009EuropeThe law replaced a 1993 statute permtg civil unns. Slovenia 2022EuropeFirst untry formerly munist Eastern Europe to legalize same-sex Ai 2006Sub-Saharan AiOnly Ain untry where same-sex marriage is legal; several untri on the ntent have passed laws that ban homosexualy recent 2005EuropeBeme the third untry globally to legalize same-sex marriage after a vote s closely divid 2009EuropeGay and lbian upl Swen prevly had been allowed to register for civil unns sce 1995.
1%) st ballots favor of legalizg same-sex marriage a 2021 2019Asia-PacificA urt lg prompted a change the law that ma Taiwan the first jurisdictn Asia to perm gays and lbians to Kgdom 2014EuropeLegal same-sex marriage took effect Northern Ireland 2020, six years after the change England and Wal.
GAY MARRIAGE: SUPREME COURT ISSU NOTICE TO CENTRE ON SAME SEX MATRIMONY
On Aug. 1, 2013, Mnota's marriage law beme genr-ntral, allowg gay, lbian and nonbary upl to marry. To mark the 10th anniversary of the law, the Star Tribune asked upl to send their photos. * centre gay marriage *
Christians who oppose gay marriage are adoptg a “pick and mix” approach to fah, the shadow health secretary has Streetg, 40, has prevly spoken out about rencilg his Christian fah wh his sexualy, and the ternal stggle he experienced when he disvered he was gay. However, he has bee creasgly vol recent months followg a historic vote by General Synod, the Church of England’s legislative body, favour of blsgs for lbian and gay upl who have already been married or had a civil partnership were landmark vote Febary angered both progrsiv, who claim that do not go far enough to offer full equaly bee the church still prohibs same-sex marriag, and nservativ, who claim that Holy Matrimony should only be between a man and a woman. I thk God created gay people, that we are accepted and our relatnships are valid and important.
CENTRE REERAT OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAG
“They get very hung up on the bs of Levic where homosexualy is led as sful or an abomatn, but they do que a b of pick and mix around food laws, clothg and other exampl. The MP also said that J “wouldn’t support that kd of persecutn and hostily” faced by same-sex upl and lbian and gay people the Church today. More pennts who lean toward the Democratic Party (81%) favor gay marriage than Democrats (71%).
WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
As a val legal advote for the legalizatn of gay marriage California 2008, he had dreamt of a statn weddg that would honor his love and mment to his partner. Reprentative: iStockThe apex urt summoned the Centre askg for a rponse wh four weeks after two Hyrabad-based men filed a petn seekg regnn of gay marriage unr the Special Marriage Act.
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None of the dified marriage acts exprsly fe marriage as a relatnship between a man and a woman, nor do they exprsly forbid same-sex 2018, a five-judge nstutnal bench of the Supreme Court overturned a portn of the dread Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co, makg homosexualy legal the untry.
One judge said the momento cisn to overturn the lonial-era statute that ma gay sex punishable by up to ten years prison would "pave the way for a better future. "The issue here is whether marriage is permissible between homosexual upl. It merely crimalis nsensual homosexual act.