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[jenk]

Spotted in today's Crickler: South Africa's highest court issued a ruling Wednesday that the exclusion of same-sex marriages in South African law "Represented a harsh if oblique statement by the law that same-sex couples are outsiders, and that their need for affirmation and protection of their intimate relations as human beings is somehow less than that of heterosexual couples."

More info in Wikipedia.

Growing up, all I really heard about South Africa was how backward and bigoted it was. Ironic that its providing more rights than America.