Polls have shown increasing support in the country for gay marriage.
Lei had insisted that a new life in a new country marriage, friendship, children would save her from her despair, but why would she want to be saved when her friends and their memories would become the casualties of her battle to live on?
The court could historically alter how the law treats marriage, striking down laws across the country banning same-sex marriage and matching an apparent cultural shift toward acceptance of same-sex couples.
France is now the 14th country to legalise gay marriage after New Zealand last week.
Lawmakers are to vote on a bill that seeks to amend the country's 1955 marriage act.
They are part of a major social trend in a country where traditions of marriage and family run deep.
Later that month, Iceland's prime minister Johanna Sigurdardottir married her partner, writer Jonina Leosdottir, on the day the country's gay marriage law came into force.
Argentina is the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage and Kirchner has promoted free contraception and artificial insemination, all positions opposed by the church.
In January 2009, Norway became the sixth country to introduce gay marriage followed, in May of the the same year, by Sweden, while a further three countries followed suit in 2010.
In a letter to the chain, he wrote: "When Massachusetts became the first state in the country to recognize equal marriage rights, I personally stood on City Hall Plaza to greet same-sex couples coming here to be married, " he added.
Those congressional votes, and the passage of similar defense of marriage laws in 38 states, express an overwhelming consensus in our country for protecting the institution of marriage.
We wanted to talk about what this means about the future of same-sex marriage in this country.
"Marriage in this country and this great state should be between one man and one woman, " Gregg says.
And it has singled out, in particular, Spain, a Catholic country that has legalized gay marriage, as the worst offender.
It is seen as weird and paranoid to imagine that it could impose something as sensitive as gay marriage on a country or that Europe would ever try.
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New Zealand's parliament has legalised same-sex marriage, the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to do so.
Yes, as Vermont's governor he signed the most liberal gay-marriage bill in the country, but he supports gun rights and the death penalty.
In July 2010, meanwhile, Argentina became the first country in Latin America to legalise gay marriage.
The country's legal minimum age for marriage was 15 till a decade ago, when the law was changed to allow for children even younger to be wed.
The country is now closely divided on gay marriage, with perhaps a slim advantage for its proponents, and independents think Republicans seem mean when they talk about it.
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If the measure is enacted, France would be the ninth country in Europe to allow same-sex marriage.
The step made France the ninth country in Europe to allow same-sex marriage.
Polls show that legalizing same-sex marriage is gaining support across the country.
The 29-year also found himself in trouble for breaching disciplinary rules for club and country following the break-up of his marriage.
If Obama gets his way and DOMA is overturned, it's only a matter of time before marriage is redefined for the entire country.
It is also the ninth country in Europe to allow same-sex marriage after legalisation in the traditionally liberal Netherlands and Scandinavia, but also in strongly Catholic Portugal and Spain.
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