From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/12/french-senate-votes-to-legalize-same-sex-marriage/
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, April 12, 2013
France’s upper house Senate voted Friday to adopt a law granting homosexual couples the right to marry, which has sparked widespread opposition and protests from conservatives and religious groups.
The vote, by a show of hands, followed days of intense debate. The bill must still technically face a second reading in the lower house National Assembly, but lawmakers there already adopted it in a first reading on February 12.
