Greece approves gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. With 176 votes in favor, 76 against and 2 abstentions, the reform was easily approved.
Greece thus becomes the 20th country in Europe and the first Orthodox Christian country to allow same- sex couples to marry. "Today is a day of joy and we are going to celebrate it properly," Lío Emanuilid u, who had a son with his partner after an in vitro fertilization process, told Efe.