Greece legalizes same sex marriage in landmark change

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Greece’s parliament approves a bill allowing same-sex civil marriage on Thursday, February 15 giving same-sex couples the right to wed and adopt children.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/world/europe/greece-legalizes-same-sex-marriage/

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00:00 Greece's parliament approves a bill allowing same-sex civil marriage on Thursday, February

00:06 15, giving same-sex couples the right to wed and adopt children.

00:11 Greece is one of the first Orthodox Christian countries to allow such unions.

00:16 This comes after decades of campaigning by the LGBT community for marriage equality in

00:21 the socially conservative country.

00:23 Although members of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' center-right New Democracy Party

00:28 abstained or voted against the bill, it gained enough support from the leftist opposition

00:33 in a rare show of cross-party unity.

00:36 The bill was approved by 176 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament.

00:42 But the law doesn't overturn obstacles for LGBT couples in using assisted reproduction

00:47 methods.

00:48 Surrogate pregnancies are still not extended to LGBT individuals, but the bill recognizes

00:53 children already born through that method abroad.

00:56 (swoosh)

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