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| SunTimes Jul 01, 2005 Spain legalizes gay marriageMADRID -- Spain became the third country to legalize gay marriage Thursday in a parliament vote that left gay activists blowing kisses to lawmakers and the powerful Catholic Church issuing veiled calls for defiance. The Congress of Deputies voted 187-147 to approve the measure giving homosexual couples the same rights as heterosexuals, including the right to adopt children. ''Marriage, understood as the union of a man and a woman, is no longer provided for in our laws,'' the Spanish Bishops Conference said after the vote, referring to the gay marriage law and a bill passed Wednesday making it easier for Spaniards to divorce. |