Comments on: Your Handy Color-Coded Atlas to Marriage Equality (And Homosexuality=Death) on Planet Earth

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:49:20 +0000

Wow…”we should nuke them” “they’re cesspools of shit.”

A pinnacle of education on this site, folks.

By: jason

jason — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:10:59 +0000

Gay super hero,

However, the Australian government’s legislation does not recognize gay relationships as gay civil unions or gay marriages. Gay civil unions and gay marriages are still banned in Australia. Australia is thus way behind many other countries.

As for the rights that you mentioned, they are similar to rights granted to other forms of co-habitation, such as a daughter caring for her father. They are not rights that recognize gay relations as civil unions or marriages.

Australian gays need to wake up to the fact that they have been let down hugely by their Labor government.

By: G S H

G S H — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:54:08 +0000

@ Farmer

The Hozqrd government was dead against any sort of recognition. It was the Rudd government that passed the law in 2008.

By: Farmer

Farmer — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:20:17 +0000

The Howard federal government did introduce recognition of same sex relationship but not marriage. My understanding of “blue” indicates “other type of partnership or unregistered cohabitation” – not gay marriage. The States cannot introduce any legislation which is in conflict with National laws.

By: gay super hero

gay super hero — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:09:40 +0000

@ Jason

As of November 28, 2008 Australia’s legislature passed a law equating the rights of same-sex couples with those of married straight couples in more than 100 areas of the law . The bill was presented by openly lesbian legislator Penny Wong.

You can read more here

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news.....9663.html/

By: jason

jason — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:22:14 +0000

Farmer,

There is no federal law “governing the recognition of gay couples” in Australia. Recognition of gay couple relationships – in terms of the validation and celebration of the relationship – is strictly a state issue. Most Australian states do NOT recognize same-sex relations in this way.

Australia should therefore not be light blue at all. Perhaps Victoria might be light blue due to the fact that it recognizes domestic gay partnerships but this is not a recognition of a union or marriage in the way Britain and other places recognize them.

By: Farmer

Farmer — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:54:56 +0000

Australian laws govening the recognition of gay couples are national laws. National Laws over ride any State Laws – it is correct to have Australia in blue.

By: Bdawg

Bdawg — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:01:52 +0000

You say the “entire place” of Africa is a burning hell for homos. So does South Africa not count or…?

By: jason

jason — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:50:17 +0000

The blue color for Australia is actually quite misleading. As far as I know, only one or two states in Australia recognize gay couples as domestic partnerships. All the other states don’t.

By: G S H

G S H — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:53:02 +0000

Ok sorry, the mpa actualy shows Burma in orange colors, not Thailand :-)

So my mistake there….

By: G S H

G S H — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:51:50 +0000

The map contains the following mistakes:

-Only a few states in Brazil and Argentina recognize same-sex partnerships. Despite a recent wedding in Argentina, the issue remains in legal limbo there. The map presents a much better situation in Latin America than is actually the case.

-Ecuador has no functioning recognition of same-sex partnerships.

-Homosexuality is not punished by law in Thailand.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:14:00 +0000

Ecuador should not be blue. Its constitution says gay couples should have some rights but laws have never been passed to give effect to the constitution; it’s a meaningless document not worth the paper upon which it is written. Also, some regions have supremely corrupt judicial systems rendering their laws moot – Washington State, New York, Maryland, Portugal, to name some.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:22:33 +0000

I love that little dark-blue dot in the middle of Mexico. For some reason, it gives me hope that pretty soon the whole thing will be blue from Canada to Argentina.

By: Ameeratron

Ameeratron — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:56:06 +0000

Pakistan should be yellow (or gray). Life in prison is the penalty written in the constitution, but its never really carried out. (I should know – I live there)

By: logopeda

logopeda — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:22:51 +0000

next time anybody asks for charity money for any African country, remember it’d be better spent somewhere else.

By: YellowRanger

YellowRanger — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:39:18 +0000

Can we just nuke the varying-shades-of-red countries into oblivion and call it a day?

We have these weapons of mass destruction piled up, might as well use them for something.

By: cat walker

cat walker — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:23:45 +0000

@RM: Argentina should not be blue, they DO NOT have gay marriage yet, only (not full) civil unions in Buenos Aires and Rio Negro provinces.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:22:08 +0000

Isn’t equal marriage the law of the land in Nepal?

By: rf

rf — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:46:44 +0000

Afghanistan? A country we’ve practically owned and reshaped for the last 8 years still has the death penalty for gays in its laws?

By: RM

RM — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:33:22 +0000

Two corrections are needed:
Argentina should be blue.
California should be at least partly dark blue. There are 18,000 valid same-sex marriages performed and recognized by the Golden State–don’t let the bigots take that away from us.
I think Israel should be light blue, but I can’t see on the map.

By: romeo

romeo — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:33:06 +0000

Actually, it looks like we’re doing okay, all things considered. Pro-gay and neutral have the haters surrounded. LOL

By: LaQuisha

LaQuisha — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:59:55 +0000

The authors of that map are not that website that took the image without the proper copyright requirement of acknowledging the authors. Actually, it is from Wikipedia, and so will be constantly updated (and has some current problems now). The link is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.....y_laws.svg

By: terrwill

terrwill — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:41:14 +0000

The reason why the most virluant homphobic countries are
in those hues is because they are bascialy nothing more
than cesspools filled with shit……….

These maps are very informative, I wonder what the amount
of US foreign aid is to the shit countries??????