http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22261494

Vive la France!

Excellent! I heard it on the news yesterday.

That was a tad premature.

Now it is LAW:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/05/18/french_president_francois_hollande_signs_gay_marriage_bill_into_law.html

BTW, France is now the country with the biggest population that has full legalization. Over 60 million people.

Next in line, BRAZIL, with its over 190 million people.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/15/us-brazil-gaymarriage-idUSBRE94E0PF20130515?feedType=RSS

That's what you get when you vote socialist, first a 75% income tax on the wealthy, and then the tax revenues are used to push trough gay marriage.

That's what you get when you vote socialist, first a 75% income tax on the wealthy, and then the tax revenues are used to push trough gay marriage.

This is the wrong place to discuss taxation policies.

Back to the gay marriage part of it, is there an international pattern where the governments that tend to pass gay marriage rights legislation USUALLY tend to be more progressive?

I think yes probably so.

That certainly doesn't mean that every progressive/leftist government in the world is making progress on gay marriage rights though!

In any case, the numbers of countries with such legislation are starting to get impressive.

Reactionaries who still insist that marriage by definition is only man and woman have so many countries now directly refuting their retrograde thinking.

Edited May 19, 201313 yr by Jingthing

That's what you get when you vote socialist, first a 75% income tax on the wealthy, and then the tax revenues are used to push trough gay marriage.

Ill informed on both counts.

The proposed tax is on companies, not "the wealthy" and as it has yet to be approved or applied there have obviously been no "revenues" from it yet that could be used for anything.

From an economic point of view, legalizing gay marriage is a good stimulant.

People doing wedding parties, household formations, divorce lawyers, gay tourism, etc.