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Activist Couple Responsible for Nova Scotia Same-Sex "Marriage" Calls It Quits

By Peter J. Smith

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, January 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Just four years after successfully challenging and demolishing traditional marriage in Nova Scotia, one homosexual activist couple has decided to call it quits on same-sex "marriage" and get a divorce.

The Chronicle-Herald reports that Kim Vance and Sam Meehan, one of the three homosexual activist couples that sued Nova Soctia in 2004 for not recognising their same-sex "marriages," have decided to end their relationship. According to the Chronicle-Herald, Vance made news of the divorce official to her friends through a December 21 posting on Facebook and included details as to the custody arrangement of the two children they shared.

Vance detailed her experience of the traumatic divorce and custody battle, calling it "a bizarre and frightening experience" that created "a level of animosity that will likely never heal." Vance said both families "were drawn into this conflict" and as a result "will now likely never communicate."

"Not just parental bonds have been affected, but grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends."

Both Vance and Meehan declined to comment to the Chronicle-Herald about the divorce.

"The reason why we got attention when we were getting married is because we were challenging a law; we haven't challenged anything by getting divorced," Vance told the Chronicle-Herald. "It's simply two people who have ended their relationship. This happens every day."

Both Vance and Meehan had lived in a lesbian relationship since 1998 and obtained a same-sex "marriage" in Ontario in June 2003. The pair then joined homosexual activist couples Ross Boutilier and Brian Mombourquette, and Ron and Bryan Garnett-Doucette in challenging Nova Scotia's marriage laws. The couples were successful after an activist judge, Justice Heather Robertson, ruled that "civil marriage between two persons of the same sex is therefore lawful and valid in Nova Scotia." With the tacit approval of an apathetic provincial parliament, Nova Scotia became the sixth province in Canada to legalise same-sex "marriage."

Unfortunately, neither Nova Scotia's Vital Statistics division nor Statistics Canada has the ability to chart the same-sex divorce rate. The census questionnaire on marital status has no distinctions between same-sex and heterosexual couples divorces. The Chronicle-Herald said that one government source told them there have been three or four same-sex divorces in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court family division in Halifax in the past 12 months.

See related coverage by LifeSiteNews.com:

Nova Scotia Scratches Out "Father" On Birth Certificates for "Father/Other Parent"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/sep/07092406.html

NOVA SCOTIA SUPREME COURT RULES PROVINCE MUST ALLOW HOMOSEXUAL ADOPTION
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/jul/01071002.html

Nova Scotia Latest to Capitulate on Homosexual 'Marriage'
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/sep/04092403.html

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