And we really wanted to show that you could.”Five years later, the “law caught up with our reality,” Rolfes said. By February 2005, Bill C-38, which would allow same-sex marriage nationwide, was brought forward by Prime Minister Paul Martin’s Liberal government. (In Georgia, same-sex couples could not legally wed until the U.S. Supreme Court deemed same-sex marriage bans illegal in June 2015.) “Same-sex marriage kind of came after many, many struggles” — for human rights, relationship recognition and same-sex parenting, Nicol said. But the same-sex marriage debate itself shifted public sentiment even further.”Divisions on marriage equality existed within the LGBTQ community itself, Nicol said.

Source: thestar July 18, 2020 15:56 UTC