Source: Pew Research Center
With the Australian Parliament’s recent passage of legislation legalizing gay marriage, 26 countries now permit gays and lesbians to wed. And if a recent high court ruling in Europe’s Austria takes effect as expected in 2019, that country also will join the ranks of nations allowing same-sex unions.
These events follow a number of other high-profile victories in recent years for gay marriage advocates, including Germany’s decision in June 2017 to allow gays and lesbians to wed and a Supreme Court ruling ruling two years earlier that made same-sex marriage legal in the United States.
Australia’s final parliamentary vote came on Dec. 7, just three weeks after more than 60% of Australians — voting in a nonbinding nationwide referendum — said they favoredlegalizing same-sex marriage.
And Austria saw a high court ruling on Dec. 5 that stipulated that gays and lesbians be given full marriage rights by 2019, unless the country’s parliament enacts legislation countermanding the order.
Categories: Americas, Australia, Europe, Homosexuality, Marriage, South Africa, The Muslim Times
Just a thought: According to the bible Sodom and Gomorra was destroyed because of this. If God the Creator was angry with these two towns what would be His response to the present situation ? Just a thought …