While gay marriage legislation may be stalled in Parliament, two celebrity gay Americans plan to kickstart the issue in Ottawa this coming week.

Lynn Warren and Alex Ali, the gay male couple from CTV's The Amazing Race, will tie the knot on Wednesday -- live on air.

The two were eliminated from the TV competition. Hot 89.9, an Ottawa radio station, took pity on them and offered to host the wedding the two couldn't legally have in California.

"We were freaking out, totally jumping up and down," Alex said.

The radio station admits the wedding is as much a political statement as it is a publicity stunt.

"We believe it should be legal everywhere. Everyone should have a shot at marriage because in the end, we should all be miserable -- just kidding," said Jeff Mauler of Hot 89.9.

Some gay marriage opponents don't see the humour.

"The laws of God quite clearly stipulate this is not right, so we're not going to sit back and just take that," said Craig Chandler, head of Concerned Christians Canada Inc.

Conservative Christians -- along with other religious groups such as Sikhs and Muslims -- have been lobbying to kill Bill C-38, which would standardize the civil marriage law across the country with respects to gay marriage.

Gays and lesbians can get married in seven provinces and one territory because courts there have ruled the traditional definition of marriage violated their Charter of Rights and Freedoms right to equality under the law.

Alex had a message for gay-marriage opponents: "I would tell those people to move to the United States.

"We understand there's controversy about it. We deal with that every day living here in the States. But the fact of the matter is the people vote and the voted to approve it and we're going to celebrate that and we're going to take advantage of it."

Alex had his facts wrong. Bill C-38 has only passed first and second reading in the House of Commons, and the Conservatives have vowed to stall it as long as possible in committee. This session of Parliament is scheduled to end on June 23.

In the meantime, however, the Amazing Wedding is scheduled to go ahead, reminding the world that in most of Canada, gay marriage is already a reality.

With a report from CTV's Paula Newton