Pink News | Feburary 2, 2013
The French National Assembly, the lower house of France’s Parliament has voted in favour of making same-sex marriage legal.
The vote held on Saturday morning was 249 in favour with 97 deputies voting against. The majority of the support for the bill came from the left, with many centrist and conservative deputies from the UMP voting against making marriage equal.
Deputies voted on article one of the bill that redefines marriage as being an agreement between two people rather than just between a man and a woman. They also voted to open up adoption to same-sex married couples.
