Hey - we just legalized gay marriage!

Apr 18, 2013 23:19

I like my country at the moment. I even like politicians - well, some of them.

New Zealand legalized gay marriage today when our parliament voted in the Marriage Equality Bill. We had civil unions before that but this takes it a final extra step. The bill passed 77 to 44.

Here's an article with pics and a video of the bill passing - politians ( Read more... )

gay marriage, i liked this, new zealand

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that_which April 18 2013, 14:40:25 UTC
Congratulations!

I wonder if our local assholes thought of foreign marriages when DOMA was written - states don't have to recognize marriages from other states, but I would imagine recognizing marriages from other countries is a treaty obligation, and therefor federal.

Prepare for marriage tourism...

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mific April 19 2013, 12:52:06 UTC
Interesting - we'd love to have them!

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