MatcomNews Update: Straight Men Cancel Their Gay Wedding

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TWO longtime friends, neither gay, who recently announced plans to get married to take advantage of Canada's tax rules that give couples preferrential treatment have called off their nuptials, they said.

Bryan Pinn, 65, and Bill Dalrymple, 56, have been best friends for 22 years. Both are divorced. Pinn has two adult children.
When Prime Minister Paul Martin's government enacted a controversial same-sex marriage law last month, the duo decided to take advantage of a loophole in the legislation and get hitched. The bill did not specificy that the couple had to be gay.

"We were in a bar doing our best impersonations of (actors from The Odd Couple television series) Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon and somebody said: 'You two guys sound like an old married couple' and a light went on and we thought we could be," said Pinn.

"We thought we could get a house and live together," he said.

Martin's Liberals passed the same-sex marriage bill in July with the support of the leftist New Democratic Party and the separatist Bloc Quebecois, ending nearly four years of debate and political maneuvering that at times divided both the House and the country.

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