Same-sex marriage 2010 upon promulgation by the Argentine President. Argentina thus became the first country in Latin America, the second in the Americas, and the tenth in the world to legalize same-sex marriage. Australia became the second nation in Oceania to legalise same-sex marriage when the Australian Parliament passed a bill on 7 December 2017. The bill received royal assent on 8 December, and took effect on 9 December 2017. The law removed the ban on same-sex marriage which previously existed and followed a voluntary postal survey held from 12 September to 7 November 2017, which returned a 61.6% "Yes" vote for
Same-sex marriage in Puebla one woman, and Article 294, which stated that marriage existed solely for the purpose of procreation, were unconstitutional. In late January 2018, after multiple attempts from Congress to delay the ruling of the Supreme Court, the Civil Registry announced that it would abide by the ruling, bypassing the Congress' authority, which was opposed to the ruling and had repeatedly tried to stop it from being enforced. The Civil Registry's announcement also followed a ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which states that countries signatory to the American Convention on Human Rights must legalise same-sex marriage. Mexico has ratified