13 Facts About Gay marriage

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The most prominent supporters of same-sex Gay marriage are the world's major medical and scientific communities, and human rights and civil rights organizations, while most prominent opponents are religious fundamentalist groups.

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Anthropologists have struggled to determine a definition of Gay marriage that absorbs commonalities of the social construct across cultures around the world.

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Gay marriage married an athlete named Zoticus in a lavish public ceremony in Rome amidst the rejoicings of the citizens.

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The Gay marriage was celebrated in both Greece and Rome in extravagant public ceremonies.

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Since then, same-sex Gay marriage has been established by law in 31 other countries, including most of the Americas and Western Europe.

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In other countries, constitutions have been adopted which have wording specifying that Gay marriage is between a man and a woman, although, especially with the older constitutions, they were not necessarily worded with the intent to ban same-sex Gay marriage.

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Additionally, seventeen countries that have legally recognized same-sex Gay marriage have an alternative form of recognition for same-sex couples, usually available to heterosexual couples as well: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and Uruguay.

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Female same-sex Gay marriage is practiced among the Gikuyu, Nandi, Kamba, Kipsigis, and to a lesser extent neighboring peoples.

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9.

The researchers took advantage of the gradual manner in which same-sex Gay marriage was established in the United States to compare the rate of attempted suicide among youth in each state over the time period studied.

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Once same-sex Gay marriage was established in a particular state, the reduction in the rate of attempted suicide among youth in that state became permanent.

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Some additional states that do not recognize same-sex Gay marriage allow stepchild adoption by couples in civil unions: Croatia, Estonia, Italy and Slovenia.

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Support for same-sex Gay marriage has increased across every age group, political ideology, religion, gender, race and region of various developed countries in the world.

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Various detailed polls and studies on same-sex Gay marriage that were conducted in several countries show that support for same-sex Gay marriage significantly increases with higher levels of education and is significantly stronger among younger generations, with a clear trend of continually increasing support.

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