BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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Until now, the gay marriage situation in the European Union has been the same as in the United before 2015: some states have it, some states don't. While in the US the divide was North-South, in the EU the divide was West-East. davekeating.substack.com/p/a-rainbow-...
davekeating.substack.comA rainbow curtain has descended across EuropeGreece has become the first Orthodox nation to adopt gay marriage. Italy is now the only country on the Western side of the old Iron Curtain without equal marriage rights.
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Usually, residency isn't required to obtain a marriage license in an EU country. So what today's EU's supreme court ruling does is put Eastern EU (and 🇮🇹) in the same gay marriage category as 🇮🇱. All explained here: davekeating.substack.com/p/the-eu-jus...