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.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_quinn/]

[Incidentally, that link is well-hid. Did you mean only to make it that opening quote mark?]

I was going to ask if the Canuckistani Supreme Court -equivalent was actually called the Supreme Court (in a clever attempt to confuse your southern neighbors), but now that I found the link to the article, I won't.

[tanetris.livejournal.com]

"You there! Yes, you two! You're of the same gender! You will marry, or face dire consequences!"

[bubbleteagirl.livejournal.com]

ugh. that makes me grumpy. you should cheer me up with pictures of myself! wee!

The secret meaning of everyday objects

[(Anonymous)]

I think he means, "...impose the existence of a same-sex marriage on the universe."

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?

Or maybe he means "impose on every province," which would result in being married except in Alberta. Such a piecemeal approach is not very Canadian.

(cola)

[masamage.livejournal.com]

Maybe it means he himself wants such a marriage! And shall impose this on us.

But probably not.

[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.

[bubbleteagirl.livejournal.com]

After watching more of this on the news last nite I have concluded that we live in a very scary world. Growing up in such a loving, accepting and sheltered community... this realization is always quite a shock. For years, though, I always thought that I was somehow protected in Canada. Even lately, I've been taking joy in looking over at our neighbours to the south and gleefully exclaiming "at least I live in Canada!" But, Harper is just as terrifying as Bush and Canada can be just as terrifying as America.