What's really interesting about this piece being highlighted on the WTS website is that it was taken from the 8 April 2005 issue of Awake! That was seven years ago. So that means the WTS has made no change in its stance and is firmly opposed to any kind of same-sex relationship no matter what secular governments think or do. Of course, this is the same organization that warned people against entering interracial marriages too, although in far milder and much less belligerent words than the Awake! article does.
The WTS has often been accused of being very Americo-centric and I think this instance is a glaring proof of that. While the article is seven years old, only now, when same-sex marriage is starting to gain acceptance in American public opinion and the American president has finally endorsed it, has the WTS seen fit to once more denounce it by making it the banner piece on its website. The Governing Body wasn't too concerned when Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain and South Africa made same-sex marriages legal. But with the waves of same-sex marriage finally washing its own doorstep, the WTS has evidently decided to once more warn Witnesses that they can have absolutely no empathy, sympathy or tolerance of same-sex marriage.
I want to thank AK MCGrath, CoCo and Disillusioned Lost-Lamb for their remarks on this topic.
Quendi