Argh

[garran]

"...Paul Martin wants to impose same-sex marriage."

No, he doesn't. How does he want to do that? I've seen no indication that the proposed legal change would make such marriage mandatory; not even for religious institutions, which (certainly according to the Supreme Court) will continue to have to right to refuse to perform marriages to whomever they please. It's not even like the legality of smoking, which forces me, every once in a while, to take some of someone else's unhealthy choice into my lungs; the extent to which it will probably chafe a few people that the government acknowledges the validity of a moral standard other than their own can only be termed an imposition in the loosest sense. Are they being intentionally misleading?

This entry is about how Stephen Harper made me politically grumpy enough to complain about it in my weblog.

Comments

[bubbleteagirl.livejournal.com]

i wonder if we get to choose the same-sex partner to whom we have to marry. or will it be a magical lottery, and Martin will just put all the boys into one box and all the girls into another box and pull out two names at a time from each box and we will be paired up in that fashion. oh, teehee. i hope my new wife is pretty.

[tanetris.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it'll apply to tourists... If I visit Canada, will I be assigned a temporary husband for the duration of the trip? Of course, I suppose that all the Canadians will already hafta be married, so will I hafta bring a guy along from America and be married to him? Or will Canadians institute polygamy? Will the marriage have to be consumated even if he isn't cute? So many questions to wonder...

Alternatively, going back to what Sorcy said, he may be imposing it on the people by making everyone try to figure out who the Mr. and who the Mrs. is, or at least making everyone henceforth refer to him as Mrs. Whomever-he-chooses-to-marry, or his husband as Mrs. Martin... Or even both, leading to mass-confusion! That bastard...