A Canadian appeals court overturned a ban on gay marriage. A couple, who had been together for 22 years, finally were able to make it legal!
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Canada Men Wed in 1st Legal Gay Marriage
By TOM COHEN
Associated Press Writer
June 11, 2003, 1:55 AM EDT
TORONTO -- An appeals court ruled that Canada's ban on homosexual marriage was unconstitutional and hours later two Canadian men tied the knot in the country's first legal same-sex wedding.
Michael Leshner and Michael Stark wed Tuesday in a civil ceremony observed by Leshner's 90-year-old mother and about 50 friends and observers.
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Last month, a British Columbia appeals court also ruled the federal government should change the law, which defines marriage as a union between a man and woman.
The court set a deadline of July 12, 2004, saying that otherwise, it would rewrite the legal definition of marriage to read "the lawful union of two persons to the exclusion of all others."
Do you think that this will have any effect on what happens in the matter of gay marriage in the US?
I suspect it will provide some emotional support to those seeking similar rulings in the US but beyond that I don't think it will have much effect here in the short term.
(Reading the ruling itself is a bit enlightening though.. The Canadian courts have a lot more leeway in making their rulings than US courts do. Some of that leeway is downright scary..)
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