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if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

I’m Gay And I Do, Eh, Hoser
by Lee

The Canucks have made official what Americans have always thought: Canada is now the world’s gayest country.

Canada legalized gay marriage Wednesday, becoming the world’s fourth nation to grant full legal rights to same-sex couples.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin signed the legislation making it law, hours after it was approved by the Senate late Tuesday night despite strong opposition from Conservatives and religious leaders.

The bill gives homosexual couples the same rights as those in traditional unions between a man and a woman, something already legal in eight of Canada’s 10 provinces and in two of its three territories.

The legislation drafted by Prime Minister Paul Martin’s minority Liberal Party government easily passed the Senate, which essentially rubber stamps any bill already passed by the House of Commons, which passed it late last month.

The Netherlands, Belgium and Spain are the only other nations that allow gay marriage nationwide.

This is what happens in Canada when there’s no hockey.

Posted by Lee on 07/20/05 at 07:57 PM in Those Wacky Canadians  • (1) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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