Sweden Approves Gay Rights Measure
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STOCKHOLM — The Swedish Parliament approved a bill Thursday giving gay couples in Sweden the same rights as common-law marriages.
The 349-member Parliament passed the gay-rights bill by acclamation, after a six-year study of homosexuals and their life styles by a government commission.
Under the law, homosexuals will be permitted to sign housing leases as couples, regulate the division of property in the breakup of a live-in relationship and grant partners the right to inherit property in the absence of a will.
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