This article talks about Canada's first attempt at same-sex divorce, barely a year after same-sex marriage was legalized. Apparently, when the legislature passed the law allowing such marriages, it forgot to amend the "Divorce Act" to also include same-sex couples, so one short-lived marriage is pushing this issue through the courts to prove that the right to marriage logically implies the right to divorce. (Though I am not sure that one really logically follows the other.)
American advocates of same-sex marriage might want to tell their Canadian counterparts to cool it. This is exactly the kind of scenario that same-sex marriage opponents cite as evidence that the whole issue is really about "redefining" marriage down to the lower common denominator and thus destroying the institution in the end. Of course, hetero-sex couples have been divorcing for a very long time, so the argument is at least somewhat flawed. Still, this is more likely to add fuel to the fire in the debate here in the USA.
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