This just in: Switzerland legalised gay marriage and adoption rights.

We had a referendum in our country back in May 2015 on the subject. We were the first country legalise same sex marriage by popular vote. 62.07% voted yes, which is only slightly lower than Switzerland's result. Much like in Switzerland, there were concerns in Ireland about same sex parenting, even though same sex adoption was legalised two months before the gay marriage referendum was held. But unlike Switzerland, where the focus was on lesbian couples accessing IVF treatment because the children would not know who their fathers are until they turn 18, in Ireland, the focus was on surrogacy. In Ireland, there was no law allowing or prohibiting surrogacy, but the lack of regulation meant that a lot of Irish people who become parents through surrogacy went to Ukraine, India, Mexico and the USA. There were concerns that if gay marriage was legalised, male-male couples would go to America or Ukraine, have kids through surrogacy, take those kids back to Ireland and those kids would potentially have no way of finding out who their genetic mothers are. On top of all of the ethical concerns about surrogacy. While I sympathised with the surrogacy concerns, being against surrogacy myself, I voted yes. Nowadays gay marriage is not talked about anymore. But the surrogacy debate is still ongoing. Recently, the government banned commercial surrogacy, but is still unsure whether or not to legalise or outlaw altruistic surrogacy. Hopefully they will outlaw it completely. I hear that all forms of surrogacy are banned in Switzerland, which is based.