Nicely done, South Africa! Their highest court just “ruled that same-sex marriages have the same rights as opposite-sex marriages”:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/02/international/africa/02joburg.html?hp. It might get overruled by the legislature, but that’s not considered likely.
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Woo! I wondered who else would post this before I did. Geez, you know it’s bad when South Africa–South Africa, people! Land of diamonds, thinly-veiled-still-apartheid, AIDS-is-not-caused-by-unprotected-sex–South Africa is considering same-sex marriage/civil marriage/legal cootchie coo. I swear, it must be having a queen that does it. Or something.
kharold is happyxasperated!
Um. I didn’t mean the queen thing the way it sounded. Um, I meant it kind of like Charles-is-a-dweeb-but-his-mum’s-awfully-nifty kind of way.
Though, if we had a queen, maybe we’d make some progress? If W. could do a Ru Paul there might be hope for the world.
Well, it just increases our “we’ll run away to [insert country]” choices. If you look closely, you’ll even find people there with my last name, so it might be a good option. ;)
P.S. Never thought I’d see RuPaul and W in the same sentence.