Posted on 08/02/2011 4:46:20 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
SEATTLE (AP) -- An American Indian Tribe in Washington state has adopted a law recognizing gay marriage, making it only the second tribe in the country known to do so.
The Suquamish Tribal Council voted Monday to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples on its reservation near Seattle, after the measure gained support from more than 100 tribal members at a meeting this spring.
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****Fake tribe; until recently it was a universal taboo.
How many of their chiefs in years past had male partners?***
Not necessarily taboo. In the book NARRATIVE OF THE CORONADO EXPEDITION by Pedro Castaneda de Najera they found quite a few villages full of “sodomites” in Northern Mexico in 1540.
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