6.11.2010

iceland makes it nine

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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