Just read from
jessruth that
all those SanFran gay marriages have been
voided.
What the hell is going on south of the border? Seriously. I'd like to know. What is it about Americans, American politics, hell, American drinking water, that makes the US so much more socially conservative than Canada?
Check out
this article, written by one of the men who were the first gay couple in Quebec to marry. In it, he says (emphasis mine): "Back in 1998, we were doing nothing original in petitioning for access to civil marriage. There were already cases in the courts of a number of American states and we simply emulated them. As it turned out,
all of the American challenges except Massachusetts failed while all of ours succeeded. Public support in Canada grew and has remained significantly higher than in the States. "
Why? Why are two fairly similar countries so far apart on issues like equality for all citizens? It took Canada a while to start the same-sex marriage thing, sure, but once we got there, it's been like the floodgates have opened. First it was Ontario, then British Columbia, then Quebec. But the neatest? THE FUCKING YUKON TERRITORY allows same-sex marriage. THE YUKON, man!
If one of our
territories is socially liberal enough to allow same-sex marriage, why isn't California?