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Article: Bound by law; Gay marriage in Canada.(Canada makes progress on same-sex marriage)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 13, 2004
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And stay that way
Canada moves towards fully legalising same-sex marriage
FOUR days after the people of 11 American states, including Montana and North Dakota, voted (alongside their presidential ballot) in favour of banning gay marriage in the constitution, just across the Canadian border two women, Erin Scriven and Lisa Stumborg, said their vows in a church in Saskatoon, in the province of Saskatchewan. Just the previous day a family court judge, Donna Wilson, had issued a decision legalising same-sex marriages in the province.
Her ruling was part of an accelerating trend. Since an Ontario court ruled same-sex marriages legal in June 2003, ...