Thursday, December 01, 2005

I think it is safe to call the United States a backwards nation when South Africa surpasses us on civil rights.
    JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - South Africa's highest court ruled Thursday it is unconstitutional to bar gay marriage, paving the way for this country to become the first in Africa to legalize homosexual unions.
South Africa. South freaking Africa. The country that maintained apartheid into the 1990s.

At this point it's not even hard to imagine South Africa slapping us with sanctions for human rights violations.

2 Comments:

At 5:18 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

For a real shocker, check into just when it was that the percentage of the US population behind bars exceeded the percentage of the SA population behind bars. Hint: It wasn't this century.

Hugs,
Shirley Knott

 
At 8:16 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Totally unrelated, but a science geek such as yourself might find this interesting:

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,69726,00.html

 

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