Meanwhile in Australia

[kateorman]

Just recently (14 October) the Senate's Inquiry into the Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws-General Law Reform) Bill 2008 has recommended passage of the Bill.

And on 16 October, the Senate passed the Family Law Amendment (De Facto Financial Matters and Other
Measures) Bill 2008 (although technical stuff means it'll have

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[nyssa1968]

As someone on a list I'm on said so eloquently (though I'm only paraphrasing): the joy of the Obama victory is clashing so horribly with the fact that couples finally able to be legally recognised as a couple - in fact, having gotten married - will go back to being unrecognised as such - in fact, being not married. People they know are concerned about the kids of these relationships - gone in one moment to be the kids of a married couple to a still-together-but-no-longer-married parents

[kateorman]

There's going to be a legal battle over the validity of those marriages.

Obama's on record as being against Prop 8, though he's not for gay marriage per se, just equal rights.