CANADIAN SSM TO BE TESTED IN ISRAEL: From the Toronto Star

Getting married in Toronto was effortless for one of Israel's leading gay activist couples -- the hard work will begin when they return home and ask for legal recognition of their union.

But battling for gay rights, and winning, is a familiar experience for Tel Aviv university professors Uzi Even and Amit Kama, who were married at Toronto City Hall yesterday. Even, who was Israel's first openly gay lawmaker, successfully fought a ban on gays and lesbians in the Israeli army and security services and won pension benefits for Kama from the university. They also adopted a gay teenager. ...

There are no civil marriages in Israel, said Kama, 44, a professor of media and communications. All marriages are dictated by Jewish law.

Though they've been a couple for 18 years, they had never discussed marriage because it appeared to be impossible.

"I see this as another step toward normalizing and raising acceptance," Even said a few hours before the ceremony.

The greatest benefit of his activism, he said, was winning the right to adopt a 16-year-old boy, now 26, whose parents disapproved of his sexual orientation.

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