Thank the almighty lord jeebus christ!

Our borders are safe from the sodomites!


Canadian gay married couple denied entry to US

MONTREAL (AFP) - The United States denied entry to Canada's first legally married gay couple because they had filled out a single customs form as a family, Canada's foreign ministry said.

A US customs official at Toronto Pearson International Airport denied entry to Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell, CBC television said.

They are the couple whose case led an Ontario court to recognize gay marriage in June.

The customs agent denied them entry as a family because the United States does not recognize same-sex marriage. The United States allows all members of a family to use the same form.

The two men refused to fill out separate forms and canceled their trip to Braselton, Georgia, where they were due to participate in a human rights conference.

Doug Elliott, a lawyer for the couple, told the CBC he was considering legal action against the Canadian and US governments.

"A law in Canada does not have extra-territorial application. Each country is free to impose conditions of entry to its territory," foreign ministry spokesman Reynold Doiron said.

Varnell and Bourrassa celebrated their union in January 2001 in Toronto, a few weeks after the Netherlands enacted a law allowing gay marriage. They won their legal battle to have their relationship legally recognized as marriage in the province of Ontario.

A court in British Columbia followed soon afterward.

Canada's federal government is considering legislation that would recognize same-sex marriage throughout the country.

Ohh boy, someone's gonna get in trouble for this...
Spike

what a bunch of crap. why is who you love regulated by the governmnet?

god i fuckin hate it here sometimes...

What does 'jeebus christ' have to do with this, just out of curiousity...

Well it seems Mr. Christ's droogies are the most vocal supporters of this kind of discrimination. The headline was an allusion to the type of thing that these folks might exclaim when reading the story.

Jeebus himself has very little to do with this, if he even existed. He'd probably be pretty pissed.

Why do I keep hearing "Onward Christian Arch-conservative Reactionary Soldiers of Exclusion and Intolerance" playing in the background...?

Actually, the really fucked up thing is that I'm pretty sure that for these purposes the US recognizes polygamous marriage.

'nuff said.
-=j=-

Out of curiousity, where'd the whole 'jeebus' spelling come from?
Spike

Simpsons I think..

i think it was from an episode of the simpsons where homer becomes a missonary to some island some where to escape a dept he owed to public t.v.

Ahh, that'd make sense...
Spike

Yet another good reason to become an expatriate. Anyone for a mass exodus?

"I'm not a missionary, I don't even believe in Jebus!"

Missionary: Impossible

Holy Jebus I have a huge index of unmonitizable information in my cranium. I wish I could remember my zip code, though. That space is taken by the fact that the estimated maximum velocity of an unladen swallow, both african and european, is between 40 and 50 miles per hour but as yet unmeasured.

erm, much much much farther back guys. like a few generations. my great grandfather & also my stepfather used the phrasing when being smartasses...

my bet is that it started way back when people first got annoyed with that type of "christian" and started mimicking/poking fun, so we'll probably never know the first usage..

i'm betting it was along the border of the Bible Belt though... i'm betting...

I do and I am.