Same-sex marriage shouldn't be news: reverend

Reverend hopes a Labrador same-sex marriage will be the last one to make headlines

A leader with a western Labrador church – that's preparing to perform its first same-sex marriage – said she hopes that someday same-sex marriages in western Labrador will not be newsworthy.

“I consider it a justice issue, that needs to become mundane,” said Rev. Betty Parrill, who will lead the ceremony at the Carol United Church in Labrador City .

“As of yet, it's not mundane and ordinary and my desire for it to be, for us to be public with it, and celebrate it in the public forum, is an effort to move it along to the ordinary place where it needs to be.”

The marriage is scheduled for this later this spring.

Canada legalized same-sex marriage on July 20, 2005 with the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act.

Newfoundland and Labrador began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in December 2004 after two couples launched a court challenge.

The same-sex couples went to court after they were denied marriage licences in the province.