(Israel) - Two weeks after the High Court of Justice issued a 6-1 ruling ordering the Interior Ministry to register five homosexual couples married abroad, the Knesset approved the first reading of legislation that seeks to overturn that decision. In a vote whose timing took many coalition MKs by surprise, the plenum decided 33 to 31 to approve a bill sponsored by MK Michael Eitan (Likud) that would make it illegal for the state to recognize same-sex marriages.
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