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Issue of same-sex marriage deeply divisive

On June 26, 2015 the US Supreme Court ordered every state in the United States to license and give legal recognition to same-sex marriage. They cast permanently into the dustbin the centuries old definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

If there was a country that was going to be the first to legalise same-sex marriage it was going to be the US. However, they were beaten to the punch by Ireland whose voters had earlier decided at a referendum to legalise same-sex marriage.

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