GREAT NEWS!!!!
Jun. 26th, 2003 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vervain13Now THIS IS HISTORY!!!
"We: (1) declare the existing common law definition of marriage to be invalid to the extent that it refers to 'one man and one woman'; (2) reformulate the common law definition of marriage as 'the voluntary union for life of two persons to the exclusion of all others;' (3) order the declaration of invalidity in (1) and the reformulated definition in (2) to have immediate effect; (4) order the Clerk of the City of Toronto to issue marriage licenses to the Couples."
- The Ontario Court of Appeal, the Canadian province's highest court, legalizing full same-sex marriage June 10, effective immediately. Scores of gay weddings have taken place already. On June 17, the federal government announced its agreement with the ruling and began the process of rewriting the marriage law. Ontario has no residency requirement for marriage. American gay couples can go there now, buy a license, and get married the same day.
"We: (1) declare the existing common law definition of marriage to be invalid to the extent that it refers to 'one man and one woman'; (2) reformulate the common law definition of marriage as 'the voluntary union for life of two persons to the exclusion of all others;' (3) order the declaration of invalidity in (1) and the reformulated definition in (2) to have immediate effect; (4) order the Clerk of the City of Toronto to issue marriage licenses to the Couples."
- The Ontario Court of Appeal, the Canadian province's highest court, legalizing full same-sex marriage June 10, effective immediately. Scores of gay weddings have taken place already. On June 17, the federal government announced its agreement with the ruling and began the process of rewriting the marriage law. Ontario has no residency requirement for marriage. American gay couples can go there now, buy a license, and get married the same day.
