It's irrational to be proud of where you are from, but today I am. The New Zealand parliament passed the Civil Union bill 65-55.
Most of the support came from the [governing] Labour Party, but a significant minority of the [conservative] National Party. It's interesting that some of those that voted against it said they would have voted for gay marriage, but not for civil unions.
"A liberal, tolerant country." In some ways so far from "God's Own Country", but in other ways still the same place.
Posted by robe0419 at December 9, 2004 04:46 PM | TrackBack