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Article: Blame Canada: equal marriage rights in Canada will also allow U.S. gays to wed legally. How will that affect the fight for marriage rights at home?(World)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2003
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A few days before Prime Minister Jean Chretien's June 17 announcement that Canada would become the first nation outside of Europe to grant equal marriage rights to gay men and lesbians, Beth Hayes and Pam Trainor of Spencer, Ind., drove across the border to exchange vows. Chretien's announcement came a week after a court in Ontario, where Hayes and Trainor were headed, ruled that equal marriage rights had to be granted in that province immediately.
Upon arriving in Leamington, a small town of 26,000, the women made a series of phone inquiries. After locating the local Unitarian Universalist church and the Ontario provincial government office that would issue them ...