It ain't racism, but it is about equality
Dec. 1st, 2005 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumSouth Africa just had its supreme court say that same-sex marriage was cannot be prohibited by law.
The decision gave the government one year to draft the legislation making it happen. It was a unanimous ruling, on the part of a 10 member court, with one dissent, of sorts. That judge felt there was no reason to not just make it happen immediately.
It puts South Africa in the company of just four other countries, Belgium, Canada, Holland, and Spain.
Given that this is AIDS Awareness Day, and lots of folks think AIDS is scourge, laid on man because of nasty homosexuals; combined with a general antipathy towards homossexuality in Africa, this is stunning.
The decision gave the government one year to draft the legislation making it happen. It was a unanimous ruling, on the part of a 10 member court, with one dissent, of sorts. That judge felt there was no reason to not just make it happen immediately.
It puts South Africa in the company of just four other countries, Belgium, Canada, Holland, and Spain.
Given that this is AIDS Awareness Day, and lots of folks think AIDS is scourge, laid on man because of nasty homosexuals; combined with a general antipathy towards homossexuality in Africa, this is stunning.
