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Gay Marriage In New Zealand Leads To Straight Guys Marrying Each Other

Hetero BFFs Travis McIntosh and Matt McCormick are tied the knot today to win a trip to the Rugby World Cup in England as part of a local radio contest. McCormick, 24, and McIntosh, 22, were legally married in front of 60 friends and family members in Eden Park, Auckland..

Needless to say, LGBT advocates are not happy about these stunt queens men:

"Something like this trivializes what we fought for,"  says queer activist Neill Ballantyne. "The competition promoted the marriage of two men as something negative,"as something outrageous that you'd never consider.

"The point of this competition is that men marrying each other is still something they think is worth having a laugh at," says LegaliseLove co-chair Joseph Habgood. “Maybe on the day that statistics around mental health for LGBTI people are better, when high schools are safe places for LGBTI youth, we can look back on all this and laugh. But competitions like this don’t bring that day any closer."

But the guys insist they mean no harm: “We are not here to insult anyone," McIntosh told the New Zealand Herald. “We are here to do our own thing and travel our own path."

Where's the fundamentalists crying about the sanctity of marriage when you need them?

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