![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jawnbc[pinched from here]
Canada has become the fourth country to officially sanction same-sex marriage. The Senate has voted 47-21 in favour of the Liberal government's controversial Bill C-38. Three senators abstained.
The historic vote comes after gay and lesbian couples launched lawsuits in different provinces demanding the right to marry. Courts in seven provinces agreed that the traditional definition of marriage violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Liberal government responded to the first of those rulings - in Ontario in 2003 - by introducing legislation which was adopted last month in the House of Commons.
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has said he will bring back the same-sex debate if he's elected prime minister. The bill will become law when it receives royal assent on Wednesday.
Canada has become the fourth country to officially sanction same-sex marriage. The Senate has voted 47-21 in favour of the Liberal government's controversial Bill C-38. Three senators abstained.
The historic vote comes after gay and lesbian couples launched lawsuits in different provinces demanding the right to marry. Courts in seven provinces agreed that the traditional definition of marriage violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Liberal government responded to the first of those rulings - in Ontario in 2003 - by introducing legislation which was adopted last month in the House of Commons.
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has said he will bring back the same-sex debate if he's elected prime minister. The bill will become law when it receives royal assent on Wednesday.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-07-20 09:25 am (UTC)