Oh Hey, Equality...

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/10/28/1883213/commonwealth-nations-change-royal.html

This is a link to an article I read at home in the Tacoma News Tribune this morning. Being that it is 2011 I was surprised to find that, " a future monarch can marry someone of any faith except a Catholic." According to the article Elizabeth II has started pushing for legislation in all of Britain's states to override the law that says royals can marry any Wikken, Hindu, Mormon, Michael Jackson Worshiper...but not a Catholic. I was truly surprised to find that Catholicism has had such an effect on the monarchy since Elizabeth I, so much so that such an interesting and strange law would have been passed.

The other facinsting thing learned from this article is the idea that, "Britain's government began the process of reviewing the rules of royal succession so that if Prince William's first child is a girl, she would eventually become queen." This is amazing because, as we have learned, no matter how much younger a son/brother can be, he has the first right to be king before his sister. Elizabeth II did not have any brothers, so she was named queen, and Charles only had sons. But the fact that the British Commonwealth is beginning to change the laws now, essentially for William and Kate, is amazing! After all these years....I figured the law would have already been changed. Even if progress is a little late, better than never.