Thanks brokeplex!
Be assured that I like very much your description! That was done as so, (like you say, in Canada, as we asked for gay marriage in the parliaments (federal, provinces...) which refused it and fought for it in the courts, as well in the public opinion for gay rights!! We must continue here in Canada, and elsewhere in the whole world! Aid somehow the USAgays, you and I and others!
May we, every gay persons and straights, thank our soldiers for creating our freedom and continue to create it, for us all !!
Like them, we, gay persons, with straights, can and should and must try for our freedom to love and to marry legally!
As a gay man, I was puzzled by the idea of gay marriages. Still am... somewhat or much. And see more and more the values of and for it! Many valuable ways FOR it!
I do not think that I would have been allowed to see my gay lover in the hospital, nor to try to save his life, had it not been for gay rights in Canada!! He and I were not married to each other (that is a different story for later), but other legal acts here in the province provided me means to see him, as well as to try to save his life.
Why should one not see his lover in the hospital? Shocking is such a refusal by a hospital!
Gay marriage is one way to protect oneself in order to see your lover in the hospital!
And there are other reasons, as staights (many or too many or some) kick you out the door of your own home in the house you lived with your lover for many years, when your lover dies!!
I agree with you... that those two ways are urgent for gay marriage to happen...
hugs!