RIGA - “The crowd went wild” would not really be an exaggeration in describing the scene in a square in Dublin last weekend when the Irish government officially announced that by a vote of around 62% to 38%, the people of the Republic of Ireland had voted to amend the country’s constitution on the basis of this proposal: “Marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex.” Ireland thus became the first country in the world where same-gender marriage was approved by a national referendum.
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