Same-sex marriage is becoming more and more acceptable in the world, but not in America, where state after states the country deny this human right to gay and lesbians.
The latest country to join the club is South Africa, now being in the same team as the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada and Spain in opening civil marriage to same-sex couples, allowing them equal economic benefits, legal rights and social status as families. Britain, Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Germany, Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Hungary also allow a kind of same sex official partnership.
Even in Israel, gays and lesbians who married abroad got the right to register their wedding, told by Israel's Supreme Court, but in the US only Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut and California allow one of the kind of same sex partnership, and the majority of the states restrict marriage to 1 man and 1 woman.
The first Latin American nation to recognize same sex union is Uruguay, but in Brazil and Argentina, some rights have been extended to same sex unions.
New Zealand and Australia allow same sex people some essential benefits given by union, such as immigration, inheritance and property rights, as Italy and Switzerland also do. Mexico City also has celebrated its first same sex marriage.
Among Asian countries Taiwan might be the first to allow some special rights to gays and lesbians, but nothing is done yet, Chinese being so conservative.
So it's clear that more and more same-sex unions are legally valid everywhere in the world, and the need of dignity, love, and freedom of two people of the same sex will never disappear.
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