New Zealand - Same-sex marriage
April 21, 2013, Sunday
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NEW Zealand's parliament voted in favour of allowing same-sex marriage on Wednesday, prompting cheers, applause and the singing of a traditional Maori celebratory song from the public gallery.
Seventy-seven of 121 members of parliament voted in favor of amending the current 1955 Marriage Act to allow same-sex couples to marry, making New Zealand the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to do so.
"It shows that we are building on our human rights as a country," Louisa Wall, the openly gay opposition Labour Party MP who promoted the bill, said after the vote.
The same-sex marriage bill will likely come into effect in August.
Seventy-seven of 121 members of parliament voted in favor of amending the current 1955 Marriage Act to allow same-sex couples to marry, making New Zealand the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to do so.
"It shows that we are building on our human rights as a country," Louisa Wall, the openly gay opposition Labour Party MP who promoted the bill, said after the vote.
The same-sex marriage bill will likely come into effect in August.
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