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| It's amazing what love can do! Just when you think there's no hope, hope pulls through. If I had left this planet in January, I wouldn't have seen this wonderful outcome, a living faith, a piece of New Heavens happenin' right here on good ol' Earth. This is a glorious piece of good news! It appeared the day after I arrived back from Olando. I went to GM as usual and read this heading on the front page in Tuesday, June 5, 2001 of... |
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| NOVA SCOTIA The registration on the government certificate said it all - 001 - and with that Kim Vance and Samantha Meehan became Canada's first same-sex couple to be registered as domestic partners. In total, four couples arrived together at the Halifax offices in Nova Scotia's Department of Vital Statistics yesterday and received documentation to recognize their same-sex relationship. They were the first to take advantage of a provincial law declaring a new kind of leagl association in Canada - a "registered domestic partnership." Nova Scotia is the first province to enact such legislation after the Supreme Court ordered all provinces to grant gays and lesbians spousal rights. For Brian Mombourquette, one of the people who received the certification, the law is about more than status. Now he and his partner are protected by some provincial laws that were previously restricted to married heterosexual couples. He said access to Nova Scotia's Marital Properties Act, which helps couples protect property they share, was important to him. Last week, the governments of Manitoba and Saskatchewan said they would change laws to grant gays more rights. (Metro) |
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| Four couples take advantage of Nova Scotia law recognizing same-sex unions |
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