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Which country was the first to legalise same-sex marriage as a result of a referendum?

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Which country was the first to legalise same-sex marriage as a result of a referendum?
posted May 19, 2022 by Mishthy Mukherjee

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Ireland
Ireland held the referendum and then, with 62% approval, legalised same-sex marriage in 2015. Same-sex unions and marriages were accepted, indeed common, for thousands of years and in many parts of the world until Christianity became a dominant influence. Increasingly since 1970 they were again recognised in several countries in a purely civil capacity, as also increasingly were marriages (the first country to legalise them being the Netherlands in 2000), but Ireland was the first to put it to a referendum.

answer May 20, 2022 by Anuradha Tabyal
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