Marital Bliss, Part III

Marriage on the brain this week, I’m afraid. My own will be this Saturday, which, by complete coincidence, is also the third anniversary of the Goodridge decision that legalized same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. If we’re lucky, we’ll get the Leonid meteor shower to provide us with some fireworks.

Farther afield, the BBC News yesterday highlighted a lesbian couple in South Africa who want to be among the first to marry under the country’s Civil Union bill, passed two days ago. Note that although the bill is named the “Civil Union Act,” it authorizes the “voluntary union of two persons, which is solemnized and registered by either a marriage or civil union.”