Gay marriages will start in the District of Columbia, the latest locality to legalize same-sex marriage, on March 5.
That’s when the bill passed by the Council and signed by the mayor will have completed its mandated congressional review period and any couples who obtained a license on the first day possible, March 2, will  have made it through the mandatory three-day waiting period between getting a license and getting married.
Same-sex marriage is legal in Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain and Sweden; in Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego province; and in the U.S. states of Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. It will become legal in Portugal in April.
By Rex Wockner
Gay marriages will start in the District of Columbia, the latest locality to legalize same-sex marriage, on March 5.
That’s when the bill passed by the Council and signed by the mayor will have completed its mandated congressional review period and any couples who obtained a license on the first day possible, March 2, will have made it through the mandatory three-day waiting period between getting a license and getting married.
Same-sex marriage is legal in Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain and Sweden; in Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego province; and in the U.S. states of Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. It will become legal in Portugal in April.
