South Africa may be the next country to legalize same-sex marriage.
Following a December ruling by the nation’s highest court that it was unconstitutional to deny gays the right to marry, a government cabinet said it would introduce a bill, which must be adopted by parliament, allowing same-sex nuptials to take place there.
A government spokesman said that “basically (the bill) will legalize same sex marriage in compliance with the constitutional court ruling” but didn’t know when it might be introduced.
The court’s ruling mandated that South Africa’s government had work to do, according to Reuters: “It said parliament had one year to change the current definition of marriage, which says the union is between a husband and wife, and that if it failed to act, the law would be automatically changed to include same-sex unions.”
Once the bill passes, South Africa will join Canada, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, and of course the great state of Massachusetts in allowing same-sex marriage.
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