First Gay Couple to Marry in Toronto Celebrate 10 Years

[Keelandson]

The minister wore a bulletproof vest.

The day before their marriage, fearing their lives could be in danger for the vows they were about to exchange, the couple said farewell to their families and to each other. . . .

. . . “Marriage is the ultimate right. With marriage comes everything else — the right to work, to adopt children, to visit people in hospital,” he said. “This really has changed things and it has shifted the conversation away from just who you can have sex with to who you can love. The public responds to that.” . . .

. . . To this day, Varnell, 41, and Bourassa still can’t fly into the United States. “Homeland Security won’t let us in because we declare ourselves a family,” he said. . . .

 

[operafan]

These lines from this story are absolutely amazing. The incredible steps others have taken for us.....

The day before their marriage, fearing their lives could be in danger for the vows they were about to exchange, the couple said farewell to their families and to each other.

“We said goodbye to people, we told them we loved them,” said Bourassa, now 52. “We were told we were under threat. The last words police officers said to us as we went down the aisle was, ‘If you hear a shot don’t move, somebody will move you, just stand still.’

“We were told if a shot was going to come it would most likely be when we signed the papers because they’d try to stop us from signing.”

Hawkes remembers being driven to the service by bodyguards who used a different route to get to the church. Dozens of police officers attended.

 

[boxerdudeuk]

homeland security won't let a gay couple who are married even ENTER the united states? what the fuck? what kind of possible threat to national security does that pose?

 

[fetaby]

^ forces the government's hand.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

Homeland security da 21stcentury most anal cretin evaaaaaaaa full crap hit barkin stooopidsssssssssss expression eva use ans specials this time ans froms USA plots of lands

PAPER PUSHERS YA CANS SAY NO TA YA TURDS FULL OF SHIT!

United Nations< try figure it out while planet heads fa iceberg



we hope ya no blow centurys of human lesson ans fail da privalage wear title Human

 

[boxerdudeuk]

^ forces the government's hand.

so you're saying that the simple act of allowing two men (or women) to travel to the US as an ostensibly "married couple" makes a de facto statement that the US is acknowledging gay marriage as a valid and legal union within their own borders?

 

[Nomenclature]

homeland security won't let a gay couple who are married even ENTER the united states? what the fuck? what kind of possible threat to national security does that pose?

Because gays are icky and we don't like them.

 

[fetaby]

so you're saying that the simple act of allowing two men (or women) to travel to the US as an ostensibly "married couple" makes a de facto statement that the US is acknowledging gay marriage as a valid and legal union within their own borders?

As you know, I'm not an expert on these matters. But it seems the state's official stance is one of grudgingly acknowledging our existence. You saw the DADT fiasco, and that's just so that we can knowingly be sent off to die.