Today Iceland became the ninth country to fully legalize equal marriage. Iceland is the only country with an openly gay head of state, and the bill was not controversial: it passed unanimously. Nice!
Story here.
These countries now recognize same-sex marriage as fully equal with opposite-sex marriage:
Belgium
Canada
Iceland
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
There's a long list of countries with "in some jurisdictions," and various second-class names for not-marriage, but the list with full equality, so far, goes to nine. Equal rights are equal rights. Either we have them or we do not.
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