What Canada Can Tell Us About Gay-Marriage Decisions

What will today's Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage mean for American society? One way to answer that question is to look at what gay marriage meant for Canada, where it just celebrated its tenth anniversary.

In 2003, an Ontario court ruled that blocking same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. A few hours later, Michael Stark and Michael Leshner became the first same-sex couple legally wed in the country. Other provincial courts followed, and in 2005, the federal government made same-sex marriage legal nationwide.