The bill allowing homosexual marriage was approved on Thursday (23), in Maryland, in the United States. By 25 votes in favor against 22, the state becomes the eighth to legalize unions between same-sex couples in the USA.
Governor Martin O'Malley, who has already announced that he is in favor of the measure and is expected to sign it soon, has made the project a priority since it stalled last year.
"This issue has required a great deal of energy, as it should be, and I am very proud that the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate have resolved this issue in the direction of human dignity, and I look forward to signing the bill," he said. the governor after the vote in the senate.
Unions between homosexuals are already legal in the states of New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, as well as in the District of Columbia, to which Washington, the country's capital, belongs.
