{"id":48,"date":"2005-06-28T23:02:27","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T23:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:58","slug":"same-sex-marriage-bill-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Same-sex marriage bill passes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nHere&#8217;s something that makes me proud to be Canadian today. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20050628.wssex0628\/BNStory\/National\/?page=rss&amp;id=RTGAM.20050628.wssex0628\" id=\"RTGAM.20050628.wssex0628\">The Canadian parliament has finally passed long-promised legislation which legalizes same-sex marriage in Canada<\/a>. This is a great day in Canadian history.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile the report from the Globe and Mail doesn&#8217;t show that other Paul Martin acting like much of a visionary &#8212; &#8220;A right is a right and that is what this vote tonight is all about\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8212; I especially liked what rookie Member of Parliament Michael Savage had to say: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153(We are) a nation of equality. A nation of strength. A nation of compassion. A nation that believes we&#8217;re stronger together than we are apart. And a nation where we celebrate equality. [. . .] We will send a statement to the world that in Canada gays and lesbians will not be considered second-class citizens.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s about time, or so says this particular Paul Martin&#8230;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat&#8217;s going to be interesting is how the reaction to this plays out here in the US.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(I should also point out that the bill now has to be passed by the Senate and signed by the Governor General, but it&#8217;s looking very likely that this will go ahead by sometime later in July)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something that makes me proud to be Canadian today. The Canadian parliament has finally passed long-promised legislation which legalizes same-sex marriage in Canada. This is a great day in Canadian history. While the report from the Globe and Mail doesn&#8217;t show that other Paul Martin acting like much of a visionary &#8212; &#8220;A right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh","category-us-of-eh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}