Fantastic, spine-tingling news from the North Atlantic.
Marriage equality has come to yet another nation: Iceland! Yes, that Iceland: socially progressive, hammered by the last few years' economic turmoil, volcanic nemesis of European airspace.
The most tingleworthy aspect of this joyous news is the outcome of the vote to approve marriage equality in Iceland's parliament:
49-0.
That's correct. The vote was UNANIMOUS. Let that sit in your mind for a moment.
The Althingi parliament voted 49 to zero to change the wording of marriage legislation to include matrimony between "man and man, woman and woman," in addition to unions between men and women.
Unanimous.
Unanimous, like the 7-member panel of Iowa's Supreme Court when they ruled marriage inequality unconstitutional last year. But not 7-0. 49-0.
Iceland joins Spain, Canada, South Africa, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Iowa, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire, the District of Columbia, Mexico's Federal District, and newly minted equalityland Portugal on the roster of places which do not discriminate in marriage.
But I gotta hand it to ya, Iceland, you've done it with panache. Congratulations to the people of Iceland, and Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, who just happens to be the first out LGBT world leader.