[Vision2020] Spain Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

[donald toogood]

That's crazy. A man can't marry a man. And two women can't either. Let'em
go in the bedroom somewhere and let them do any thing to each other, I
don't care but that's still not a real marriage whether they call it
married or not.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Tom Hansen"
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com
  Subject: [Vision2020] Spain Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
  Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 06:04:36 -0700

  >
  > > From today's (July 1, 2005) Spokesman Review with a heart-felt
  gracias to
  > Spain -
  >
  > Perhaps we should consider outsourcing our government.
  >
  > Thoughts?
  >
  >
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  >
  > Spain legalizes same-sex marriage
  >
  > Associated Press
  > July 1, 2005
  >
  > MADRID, Spain - At the historic Congress of Deputies, pandemonium
  erupted.
  > Conservatives shouted in fury. Gay activists collapsed in tears.
  Some began
  > making wedding plans - or at least deciding who'd pop the question,
  now that
  > they could.
  >
  > The 350-seat Congress of Deputies, by a vote of 187-147 with four
  > abstentions, approved the measure to give homosexual couples the
  same rights
  > as heterosexual ones, including the right to adopt children.
  >
  > Inside the stately 19th-century chamber where other chapters of
  Spanish
  > history have been written, several conservative Popular Party
  members rose
  > and yelled: "This is a disgrace."
  >
  > Outside, activists jumped for joy and waved rainbow flags
  symbolizing the
  > international gay rights movement.
  >
  > Gay couples can get married as soon as the law is published in the
  official
  > government registry - as early as today.
  >
  > The Netherlands and Belgium are the only other two countries that
  recognize
  > gay marriage nationwide. The Netherlands lets gays adopt children.
  >
  > Canada's House of Commons passed legislation Tuesday that would
  legalize gay
  > marriage by the end of July as long as the Senate also passes the
  bill,
  > which it is expected to do.
  >
  > In the United States, Massachusetts is the only state to recognize
  gay
  > marriage. Vermont and Connecticut have approved same-sex civil
  unions.
  >
  > ------------------------------------------------------------
  >
  > Take care, Moscow.
  >
  > Tom Hansen
  > Moscow, Idaho
  >
  > "What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not
  that they
  > are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what
  they say
  > about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."
  >
  > -- Robert F. Kennedy
  >
  >
  >
  >
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