Grab your gun and hop in the kombi, we're goin' to South Africa!

A Guy Named Joe's picture

Hasn't anyone posted this yet?
Gay marriage is legal in South Africa, bitches!
To celebrate, let's have a lion roast and hijack a mercedes!
Long live in the ANC!

In all seriousness, I think it's wonderful that I can now get married in South Africa. It's one of the most beautiful countries in the world, with an amazing culture.

Icarus's picture

it's really sad that a

it's really sad that a country whose segregation ended nearly 30 years after ours did is now culturally ahead of us...

"Yes! No! Oh, damn!"

Feather's picture

Yes!

I think I know where I'm moving when I turn 18...

adrian's picture

i already live here

lions aren't a problem.

hippos kill more people every year than plane crashes and lions combined

a friend of mine's parents were killed by a hippo
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Adrian
Putting the HEAD back into Hedonism

It's cute how you believe in things. - Slither

Inkblot's picture

Dear me

Like in James and the Giant Peach, with the rinocerous. Oy vey.

Do I shock you darling?
-Sally Bowles, Cabaret

oldfoxbob's picture

question for the SA members.

If the marrage is legal there. Is it then legal in the surrounding countrys also? That is to say do they except gay marrage done in SA?
Also do you have to be a citizen of SA to get married there?
Oldfoxbob
Genius is not a sign of intelligence, but rather
that of common sense.

haNa's picture

Not accpeted

The only country in Africa that gay marriage is legal in is South Africa. It is NOT accepted, and a lot of people are wondering how long it will last...
Not sure about citizenship, but if you got a married in SA, then moved back to the states (other than Mass and Rhode Island) it would mean nothing.

~haNa

adrian's picture

oh. i think it will stay.

The general consensus in the community is that it was about damn time.

Freedom from persecution because of your sexuality is in our CONSTITUTION.
The laws were ruled unconstitutional.

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Adrian
Putting the HEAD back into Hedonism

It's cute how you believe in things. - Slither

adrian's picture

Basically

when we turned into the new south africa in 94, all the old laws didn't stop existing. We didn't start from scratch.

So nobody in the current government ever made it illegal. It was still illegal from the 60's or so. So religious nuts wanted to keep it that way, but they were overruled.

Getting rid of those laws is just part of climbing out of the morass that was the old regime, along with the racist laws, etc.

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Adrian
Putting the HEAD back into Hedonism

It's cute how you believe in things. - Slither

my three wheeler rox's picture

Huh?

I thought Canada was legal too, eh?

3 wheels are better than 4!

dykehalo's picture

HECK YES- Cuz canada ROCKS

Yes in canada it is leagal. Same-sex marriage was legalized across Canada by the Civil Marriage Act enacted on July 20, 2005. I love Paul Martin for introducing this in the Canadian House of Commons. He Rocks.
and canda rocks to. Eh!!
~~~NO DAY BUT TODAY~~~

raining men's picture

Of course

I know I love it. Great example for the world man, esp coming from africa

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suf-fer-ing"

utter_insanity's picture

Whoop!

Whoop! *throws confetti*

I wish that gay marriage was legal in the States, too...


~~Gay and Here to Stay~~

whateversexual_llama's picture

Only a select few of the

Only a select few of the States in the US allow it. Pah.

Whatever I did, I didn't do it.

haNa's picture

Mass.

Gay marriage is only legal in Massachusetts, but states like Vermont, New Jersey, California, etc. offer some type of protection (NJ offers equal rights, just different name).

~haNa