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Uruguay legalises same-sex marriage [View all]
Uruguay's Congress has voted to legalise same-sex marriage, making it the second country in Latin America and the third in all the Americas to do so.
Seventy-one of 92 lawmakers in the lower house voted in favour of the proposal, one week after the senate passed it by a wide majority. President Jose Mujica is expected to sign the bill into law.
"I agree that family is the basis of society but I also believe that love is the basis of family. And love is neither homosexual nor heterosexual," said opposition lawmaker Fernando Amado of the centre-right Colorado party.
Uruguay is the 12th country to pass a law of this kind, according to Human Rights Watch. In the Americas, Argentina and Canada have approved gay marriage, and it is allowed in Mexico City and some parts of Brazil, as well as nine states of the US.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/11/uruguay-legalises-same-sex-marriage
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