# Two years ago: Great Debates. Now: MPSIMS - Same-sex marriage in New Brunswick **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 24, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-years-ago-great-debates-now-mpsims-same-sex-marriage-in-new-brunswick/309627 "2005-06-24T04:00:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-years-ago-great-debates-now-mpsims-same-sex-marriage-in-new-brunswick/309627/1 "2005-06-24T04:00:35Z")
Two years ago the decisions of the Ontario and B.C. courts on same-sex marriage got everyone in a lather, but today it’s just a trailer on the bottom of the news channels. I had to hunt around just now to find a link: [New Brunswick ruling clears way for gay marriage](http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/06/23/nb-marriage-050623.html). So now it’s just Alberta, PEI, NWT and Nunavut, as far as I can tell, that don’t have same-sex marriage. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-years-ago-great-debates-now-mpsims-same-sex-marriage-in-new-brunswick/309627/2 "2005-06-24T04:05:45Z")
You’re right. Tomorrow’s headline: SAME-SEX LEGALIZED IN NINTH REGION. NATIONAL OUTPOURING OF EMOTION: “MEH” ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-years-ago-great-debates-now-mpsims-same-sex-marriage-in-new-brunswick/309627/3 "2005-06-24T04:15:09Z")
> [@Northern Piper](#): > > So now it’s just Alberta, PEI, NWT and Nunavut, as far as I can tell, that don’t have same-sex marriage. Not for long. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-years-ago-great-debates-now-mpsims-same-sex-marriage-in-new-brunswick/309627/4 "2005-06-24T05:17:06Z")
I’m curious to see what brouhaha develops. The local paper prints countless letters from small-minded idiots who claim that same sex marriage will cause the decline of civilization. Always nice to see a quote from Eldon Hay. He was my former World Religions professor many years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-years-ago-great-debates-now-mpsims-same-sex-marriage-in-new-brunswick/309627/5 "2005-06-24T05:29:58Z")
Ai yi yi, my devoutly Catholic\* mother hasn’t called me yet, but thanks for the heads up. More long distance arguments. Personally, I think: YAY! HOORAY! I have some friends to write home to who will be in very good spirits! _Gay_, even! 😃 - - _she_ brings it up, I don’t paint all Catholics, devout or otherwise, with the same giant brush. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-years-ago-great-debates-now-mpsims-same-sex-marriage-in-new-brunswick/309627/6 "2005-06-24T06:07:53Z")
when I was surfing the news tonight, I came across a reference in one article that says Nunavut has decided to voluntarily recognize same-sex marriage without a court case, but now I can’t find the page again and I can’t find anything else about it. Has anyone else heard anything about this? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-years-ago-great-debates-now-mpsims-same-sex-marriage-in-new-brunswick/309627/7 "2005-06-25T00:16:18Z")
**Piper** , all I’ve heard is that they’ve agreed to recognize SSM _performed elsewhere_, as well as perform same-sex divorces. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-years-ago-great-debates-now-mpsims-same-sex-marriage-in-new-brunswick/309627/8 "2005-06-28T05:48:45Z")
thanks, **matt**. hmmm - not willing to accept that the common law for capacity to marry has changed, but are willing to accept that the Divorce Act is under-inclusive…sounds sort of like “we’ll do what we can to help them gays see the error of their ways…” ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-years-ago-great-debates-now-mpsims-same-sex-marriage-in-new-brunswick/309627/9 "2005-06-28T12:01:20Z")
The SSM issue is apparently before the courts in NWT as we speak. Unless they’re on coffee break. It’s just how they work things up there. I would like to state for the record that I am not one of the Albertans who stands against this issue, but then you already knew that.