This has been a wildfire week for gay marriage in the United States. And it looks like it’s spreading East. Via Gay Agenda and Joe.My.God
Japan has given the green light for its nationals to marry same-sex foreign partners in countries where gay marriage is legal, a justice ministry official said Friday.
Japan does not allow same-sex marriages at home and has so far also refused to issue a key document required for citizens to wed overseas if the applicant’s intended spouse was of the same gender.
Under the change, the justice ministry has told local authorities to issue the key certificate — which states a person is single and of legal age — for those who want to enter same-sex marriages. [AFP]
This must be part of a larger strategy by Japanese gay rights activists to have launch a domestic marriage campaign. How weird is it that Japanese citizens can have a legally recognized gay marriage, but only if one of the people in the marriage isn’t Japanese? Doesn’t that prompt a “Why not me?” response from gay Japanese couple who want to marry each other?
And it just occurred to me, for the first time in my life, that the Japanese islands look like a seahorse.
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