French gay-marriage bill clears hurdle
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Updated 11:12 pm, Tuesday, February 12, 2013
France's lower house of parliament approved a sweeping bill on Tuesday to legalize same-sex marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt children, handing a major legislative victory to President Francois Hollande's Socialists on a divisive social issue.
The measure, approved in the National Assembly in a 329-to-229 vote, puts France on track to join about a dozen mostly European nations that allow same-sex marriage and comes despite a string of recent demonstrations by opponents of the so-called "marriage for all" bill.
With Tuesday's vote, France joins Britain in taking a major legislative step in recent weeks toward allowing same-sex marriage and adoption - making them the largest European countries to do so.
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