Marriage equality

Marriage Equality has been campaigning since February 2008.  In that time, we’ve seen public support grow from 58% in 2008 to 75% in 2012. - http://www.marriagequality.ie/

DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE  - http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/marriage

The legal union of a couple as spouses.  The basic elements of a marriage are: (1) the parties' legal ability to marry each other, (2) mutual consent of the parties, and (3) a marriage contract as required by law.

Timeline of legalization of same sex marriage - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage

2001	Netherlands (1 April)
2002	(none)
2003	Belgium (1 June), Ontario (10 June), British Columbia (8 July)
2004	Quebec (19 March), Massachusetts (17 May), Yukon (14 July), Manitoba (16 September), Nova Scotia (24 September), Saskatchewan (5 November), Newfoundland (21 December)
2005	New Brunswick (23 June), Spain (3 July), Canada [national] (20 July)
2006	South Africa (30 November)
2007	(none)
2008	California (16 June; discontinued 5 November), Connecticut (12 November)
2009	Norway (1 January), Iowa (27 April), Sweden (1 May), Coquille Indian Tribe [Oregon] (May), Vermont (1 September)
2010	New Hampshire (1 January), District of Columbia (3 March), Mexico City (4 March), Portugal (5 June), Iceland (27 June), Argentina (22 July)
2011	New York (24 July), Suquamish Tribe [Washington] (1 August)
2012	Alagoas (6 January), Quintana Roo (May), Denmark (15 June), Sergipe (15 July), Espírito Santo (15 August), Caribbean Netherlands (10 October), Bahia (26 November), Brasilia (1 December), Washington (6 December), Piauí (15 December), Maine (29 December)
2013	Maryland (1 January), São Paulo (16 February), Ceará & Odawa [Michigan] (15 March), Paraná (26 March), Mato Grosso do Sul (2 April), Rondônia (26 April), Santa Catarina & Paraíba (29 April), Brazil [national] (14 May), France (18 May), Delaware (1 July), Uruguay, Minnesota & Rhode Island (1 August), New Zealand (19 August)
In progress	England and Wales, Luxembourg, Nepal, Scotland