South Africa to legalize gay marriage

The Constitutional Court in South Africa today ordered that the country's parliament change marriage laws to allow gay marriage.

The court ordered that the definition of marriage be changed from a "union between a man and a woman" to a "union between two persons"

(It's worth adding that this is explicitly within the Court's authority according to the South African constitution)

The South African charter, promulgated in 1996, is the first constitution in the world to explicitly ban state discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.