Last week, Ireland made history by becoming the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote, giving gay people the right to marry once the law is written into the legislature in the next couple of months.
The European country is now one of 19 international territories that have legalized gay marriage, along with 37 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
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