The Associated Press reports that South Africa's highest court has decreed that it is unconstitutional to ban gay marriage. The Constitutional Court has given the national parliment one year to change the definition of marriage so that it no longer is restricted to one man and one woman.
The South African Constitution, created in 1994 after the end of Apartheid, had banned discrimination based upon sexual orientation but heterosexual couples had a number of rights that weren't shared by gays. The court's decision will end that.
Wonderful. South Africa extends full rights to gays less than a month after Texas voters ok a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage for all time. Wouldn't it be nice to live in a land of freedom for everyone like South Africa?
Too bad I live in this country which, under the influence of your local Christian Church group, is accelerating it's march back into the Middle Ages.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment