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… our neighbors in the Great White North on their parliamentary passage of a bill to allow gay marriages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well done, people. Would that we Down South were as enlightened.<\/p>\n

Marn<\/a> sums up my feelings on the matter quite nicely. Not unexpectedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… our neighbors in the Great White North on their parliamentary passage of a bill to allow gay marriages. Well done, people. Would that we Down South were as enlightened….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,718,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-stuff","category-marriage-equality","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10983,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/meanwhile_to_the_north.html","url_meta":{"origin":8011,"position":0},"title":"Meanwhile, to the North …","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-May-07 10:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"More same-sex-marriage brouhaha from our neighbors in the Anglican Church of Canada.\u00a0 The Canadian\u00a0church has been a footnote in a lot of the\u00a0discussions to date on what's going on...","rel":"","context":"In "Marriage Equality"","block_context":{"text":"Marriage Equality","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/marriage-equality"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/episc-shield.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":31276,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/on-winning-minnesota.html","url_meta":{"origin":8011,"position":1},"title":"On winning Minnesota","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Nov-12 7:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"Dale Carpenter makes the case that defeating passage of\u00a0Minnesota's ballot proposition to ban gay marriage was at least as important as the passage of initiatives\u00a0in other states to legalize it. 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