SSM COMES TO NOVA SCOTIA: From the Canadian Press

[Courts again. --E]

After waiting 20 years for the right to get married, Bryan and Ron Garnett-Doucette wasted little time Friday after Nova Scotia joined a growing list of provinces to recognize same-sex unions.

The two men walked hand in hand to a municipal office to apply for a marriage licence just 90 minutes after a Nova Scotia Supreme Court justice ruled the couple, who have been partners for the last two decades, could legally wed. ...

In Halifax for a provincial NDP policy workshop, federal New Democratic Leader Jack Layton applauded the decision but scolded the federal government for not taking charge of the issue itself.

"It's a very good day for equality in Nova Scotia," he said. "It should send a message to our federal government to have a vote on the issue. Right now it's languishing in the Supreme Court (of Canada) in what could be a long, tortuous process. Why don't we just simply follow the direction that's been established in so many courts."

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