Gay Couples Follow a Trail North Blazed by Slaves and War Resisters

New York Slimes ^ | November 23, 2003 | CLIFFORD KRAUSS

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Culver Pictures
In an 1862 lithograph, a slave is depicted fleeing
toward Canada before the Civil War.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Heaven was the word for Canada and the Negro sang of the hope that his escape on the Underground Railroad would carry him there," the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once noted in describing the codes American slaves used in their spirituals to fool their masters before taking flight.

Canada is heaven again for Lance W. Bateman and William E. Woods, two American men who were married here recently.

The wedding on Aug. 31 looked like a typical Hawaiian wedding, with the grooms wearing tropical ceremonial shirts made of pineapple fiber woven to look like fine silk and every guest wearing at least one orchid lei. Except the affair was in Canada, because the two men could not legally be married in Hawaii, where they live and to which they have returned.

As untraditional as the affair might seem, the men were actually following a long tradition of Americans coming here to break the conventions of the day, do something illegal, or simply live as they wished. The tradition goes back to the American Revolution, when 30,000 Loyalists flooded into Ontario and Nova Scotia to remain in the paternal embrace of King George III.

Mr. Woods, a 54-year-old public health administrator, and other gay-rights advocates are campaigning to encourage American gay couples to marry in Canada and then take their Canadian marriage licenses back home to press for the kind of pension, medical and other benefits that heterosexual married couples

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Poor, oppressed fags, abused like the slaves of yesteryear in the U.S.

[Tijeras_Slim]

So I guess the Hershey Highway joins the Underground Railroad.

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ROFL

[Thebaddog]

What have they really done? Is there something that will come of all this foolishness that betters us all?

[Young Rhino]

Was there a gerbil in that knapsack?

[martin_fierro]

Adds a WHOLE 'nother wrinkle to "We Shall OverCome."

[IronJack]

Gay Couples Follow a Trail North Blazed by Slaves and War Resisters

Poor equivalency argument. Unlike fags, slaves couldn't help that they were born Black. War resistors were (ostensibly) acting on conscience. Homos are simply amoral degenerates seeking to destroy the bedrock of civilization by expanding its definition so broadly as to render it meaningless. They're social Marxists, or at least the pawns of that ilk, whether they know it, admit it, or not.

[joesnuffy]

On the underground railroad they spend most of their time in the caboose...

[Jeff Chandler]

When are black people going to rise up and denounce this ugly comparison?

[Jeff Chandler]

Harriet Tubman meets Harry Butman.

[Kay Soze]

Great point!

No nothing they have done is for the betterment of mankind.

It only increases the transmissions of ever more powerful viral diseases yet come from either chimpanzees or live culture antibodies errors.

Homosexual men and those that practice unnatural sex ( anal or African dry )will always the prime carriers and transmitters of disease.

The costs to contain them currently run in the billions and billions of dollars.

Were it not for the amoral we would be able to cure world hunger.

There’s a reason that God doe not want us to this.

Nothing trailblazing in selfishness.

[goodnesswins]

I think quite a few Blacks will find this disgusting....and the Dems in their support will continue to alienate a group waking up to reality.....the DEMS do NOT give a Da*n about them......equating race with sexual preference does NOT compute.

[Spiff]

I want to point out that in no State are gays prohibited from getting married. In fact, gays can marry each other. However, they just can't marry someone of the same sex. There is no prohibition against gay marriage - just same sex marriage.

[elbucko]

..the men were actually following a long tradition of Americans coming here to break the conventions of the day, do something illegal,...

Not entirely true. The straights went South of the Border to Mexico to drink - if underage or during prohibition - and whore around before being shackled by the chains of matrimony or military service.

Viva Wazoo!

[Age of Reason]

take their Canadian marriage licenses back home to press for the kind of pension, medical and other benefits that heterosexual married couples

Next men will return from third-world countries with a dozen wives in tow.

[Young Rhino]

Next men will return from third-world countries with a dozen wives in tow.

A dozen?!! What horrible deed did these men do to deserve such a punishment? :-)

[boycott]

Was there a gerbil in that knapsack?

When is PETA going to make the cruelty to gerbils an issue? I guess one left group doesn't want to offend another left group. Any flamer with a gerbil up his azz should be sent to prison for cruelty to animals.

[Jaxter]

Their favorite part of the trip is getting packed.

[T'wit]

Dear Abby:

I am the founder of the North American Man-Hamster Reproductive Rights Alliance (NAMHRRA). 50% of our members are faithful to hamsters but 50% want to "make it" with chickens, and the chickens are squawking about it. We have polled our membership and both of us want you to be the judge. Please decide if we should rename our group the North American Man-Hamster-Chicken Squeaking, Squawking Summer of Love (NAMHCSSSOL).

Sincerely, Bruce of Bayonne

[A. Goodwin]

African dry... I'm curious: what is this, exactly? (unless it's too nasty for public dscussion, of course.)

By the way, any relation to Keyser Soze?