This is An Important Day in The Development of Human Rights (or, I'm a Lumberjack....)

apparently i can’t resist the urge to add fuel to your fire. news of this hit the canadian papers several weeks ago - the cover photo was couble embracing. i looked at this photo several times and wondered why did they use a photo of a straight couple, upon much closer inspection they were both women.

you know all joking aside the face that canada at least is got this up on the block for consideration is huge and the fact that our country is so far behind is sad its amazing to me that in the year 2003 gay marriage is still not legal some people may say whats the big deal? have a commitment ceremony buy a house together write a will together etc etc but the big deal is when one of two lovers is deported because their gay lover can not marry them and keep them in the country when one of them dies and the others family does not respect them i know a couple that were together for 17 years when of the men died even though hed written a will leaving everything to his lover the government declared the will invalid all everything he had was auctioned off some went to the government the rest to his brother in germany who he didnt even talk to the lover became destitute and homeless yes i am in support of gay marriage and sad that we dont have it you know in this country there are states that had inter-ratial marriage illegal even into the 70;s

its time to get the fuck over this and be humane

It’s not so important that the courts ruled that gay marraige was ok — after all, the Hawaii Supreme court made the same ruling several years ago, which prompted the Hawaiian legislature to pass a law specifically reserving the right to marry for opposite-sex couples.

It’s that the Canadian government, unlike the Hawaiian government, has pretty much said OK, so how do we make this work? That’s a huge change, and that’s really the most important one.

The fact that it happened in Canada, well, the lumberjack joke was too hard to resist.