Pitcairn Island Passes Gay Marriage but Has No Wedding Plans

[TexasTowelie]

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Pitcairn Island, a tiny speck in the Pacific that's home to just 48 people, has passed a law allowing same-sex marriage — but has no gay couples wanting to wed.

First settled in 1790, Pitcairn is a British Overseas Territory that has some legal autonomy and is often considered the world's smallest country by population. Islanders are descended from the mutineers of the British navy vessel Bounty and their Tahitian companions.

Pitcairn Deputy Governor Kevin Lynch said Monday the new law came into effect May 15 but initially wasn't published online after the island's website encountered some technical issues. He said the change was suggested by British authorities after England, Wales and Scotland legalized same-sex marriage last year. He said the law change was unanimously approved by the local council.

Seventh-generation resident Meralda Warren said there haven't been any same-sex marriages since the law passed and she doesn't know of any gay couples wanting to wed. As with most law changes, she said, a notice was put up on the verandah of the town hall and a second at the island's general store.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pitcairn-island-passes-gay-marriage-wedding-plans-31933324

Cross-posted in the LGBT Group.

[Betty Karlson]

1. Good news. It warms the heart.

One cannot help to be curious about that note on the verandah.

"All residents are hereby informed that the local council has uninimously decided that same sex couples can now marry on the island. You know, if you want to. Or we can just import some gays. By the way: please let us know if you've got a rainbow flag we can borrow for when we do a gay wedding."

[TexasTowelie]

2. I'm sure that the annual Gay Pride parade

will be a featured event. Surprisingly these people are way less uptight than people in some American states.

Unfortunately the rabid right will blame the eventual extinction of the population on the island on gay marriage being allowed, even if none of the inhabitants ever are involved in a homosexual marriage.

[Betty Karlson]

3. Naw... The gays may come to the rescue

and turn it into the most fabulous overseas territory the British Commonwealth ever had. And that would constitute the first gay majority state in the world.

(All right, all right. I know. But a girl can fantasise, no?)

Edit: By the way, would you like to cross-post this in the GLBT group?

[TexasTowelie]

4. I'll go ahead and do the cross-post. nt

[marble falls]

5. Somehow isn't this the way its supposed to be? Freedom based on fairness not just need?