The Greek parliament on Thursday approved civil marriage for same-sex couples by a large majority, becoming the first majority Christian Orthodox country to do so. “The vote has passed: as of tonight, Greece is proud to become the 16th EU country to legislate marriage equality,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “This is a milestone for human rights, reflecting today’s Greece – a progressive, and democratic country, passionately committed to European values.” In a rare cross-party consensus in Greece, left-wing, social democratic and conservative lawmake…