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The Gay Divorcees
Jun. 16th, 2005 11:44 amBC's first same-sex divorce has been granted: http://vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_gay-divorce20050615. The marriage lasted less than two years.
Apparently this was not a test case to alter the law, either, because the Divorce Act only allows a man and a woman to part: "I had no idea I couldn't file for divorce. It just blew me away – the fact that we could legally get married, but we couldn't get divorced."
Obviously this was an administrative oversight, and the law has been altered so there's no problem now. Anyone can marry anyone, and split up with them too. But perhaps it could have been left in place - you fought so hard for the right to marry, now you have to keep the spouse 'till death do you part!
Just joking there, folks - I have never been down on gay marriage specifically, just the entire institution. Far be it from me to deny homosexuals an equal opportunity for wedded misery!
Apparently this was not a test case to alter the law, either, because the Divorce Act only allows a man and a woman to part: "I had no idea I couldn't file for divorce. It just blew me away – the fact that we could legally get married, but we couldn't get divorced."
Obviously this was an administrative oversight, and the law has been altered so there's no problem now. Anyone can marry anyone, and split up with them too. But perhaps it could have been left in place - you fought so hard for the right to marry, now you have to keep the spouse 'till death do you part!
Just joking there, folks - I have never been down on gay marriage specifically, just the entire institution. Far be it from me to deny homosexuals an equal opportunity for wedded misery!
