Friday, June 17, 2005
Gay Marriage Inevitably leads to Gay Divorce
This week British Columbia’s Supreme Court granted their first ever, same sex divorce.
CBC News Reports:
Two women who got married in Parksville two years ago have been granted a divorce by a B.C. Supreme Court judge in Nanaimo. Gay and lesbians in B.C. won the legal right to marry in 2003, sparking a wedding boom.
Among the gays and lesbians who decided to get married was a woman who can only be identified – by court order – by her initials, J.S.
But the marriage didn't work out. And J.S. filed for divorce last year.
But she says she was shocked to discover that while her same-sex marriage was legal, she wasn't allowed to divorce – because the Divorce Act only allowed a man and a woman to part.
So, in order for B.C. Supreme Court Justice Laura Gerow to grant the “divorce,” she had to rewrite the law, which originally defined a married couple under the Divorce Act as a man and woman. Justice Gerow declared the Act unconstitutional, granting the divorce to the unnamed couple who were “married” in 2003.
Madame Justice Laura Gerow agreed the divorce law discriminated against gays and lesbians. And with the stroke of a pen, she granted the divorce – and changed the law to define a married couple as any two persons.
And this is just the beginning of the beginning! As noted by California Assemblyman Tim Leslie in his January 2004 article entitled “The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage” the fundamental nature of same sex relationships will ultimately lead to the breakdown of the family.
This weeks ruling in British Columbia just goes to prove that this truth is so self-evident that not even newly defined families are immune.
Craig DeLuz
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