A father and son are to become a married couple after a 50-year
relationship.
But before you start to
worry about some weird incest thing, they aren’t actually biologically related.
In fact, Bill Novak and
Norman MacArthur used a technicality to gain the rights they wanted when
they moved to a part of the U.S. that didn’t recognise same-sex partnerships.
They registered as
domestic partners in New York in 1994 before moving to Pennsylvania.
Norman told Patch: ‘We were
told at that time “hell would freeze over before Pennsylvania approves same sex
marriage”.’
And so Novak adopted
MacArthur in 2000.
It turns out that it must
be quite cold in hell right now because Pennsylvania has had to allow same-sex
marriage.
So they broke off the
adoption, a practice that had been used by many same-sex couples in the
state for some time, and this summer they will officially get married.
Norman added: ‘We are
ecstatic beyond relief. I feel an enormous sense of not only relief but freedom
that we can finally do something in Pennsylvania that I’ve been dreaming of for
years.’
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