NYT: South African Parliament Approves Same-Sex Marriages
The New York Times (free registration required) reports thatParliament [in Johannesburg] on Tuesday [11/14/2006] voted resoundingly to legalize same-sex marriages in South Africa, making the nation the first in Africa and the fifth in the world to remove legal barriers to them, according to advocates.The nation’s highest court ruled last December that South Africa’s marriage statute violated the Constitution’s guarantee of equal rights. The court gave the government a year to alter the legal definition of marriage.
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