Tag: Marriage Act

Ireland has become the first country to legalize same-sex civil marriage by popular vote, with 62.1 percent in favor of the legal union between two people "without distinction as to their sex." This happened in May at a Referendum that has written another page in the history of the LGBT community. But today the law came into effect, and same-sex couples of the Republic of Ireland can now get married. The law recognizes same-sex marriages that were legalized abroad immediately, and...