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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I really don't this issue should be permitted to go to a free vote in the house. The Charter of Rights is very clear on this issue.
I am worried that it won't pass. I was listening to "As it Happens" on CBC Radio last night and the Conservative Minister for London was on saying how many people are against this... specifically the alteration of the definition of Marriage.
When I try to understand this from the point of view of people who are against, I literally cannot understand their position. It just doesn't make sense.
What are they losing by letting this happen? Are any of their rights being taken away? Does this hurt anyone?
No. No. And no.
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Yup. One day 100 years from now, people will be astonished at the waste of time spent on deciding who and who shouldn't be treated equally and fairly as citizens of Canada.
I too listened to a CBC show some time back, might have been Rex Murphy and just couldn't believe the people phoning in venting their frustrations at gays and gay marriage. But then again, these are the folks who believe in Chicken Little and more appropriately, whatever nonsense someone tells them because they are too fucking stupid to think for themselves.
And what is most priceless about these folks is that they actually believe their rights are being eroded, that somehow people are against them. Like my mother used to say,..blind in one eye and can't see out of the other.
As for Martin and Harper and the rest. How pathetic, apathetic, or just plain disinterested have Canadians become that this is the best we can do. Well you get what you pay for, or get when 60% of the population doesn't give a shit anymore, at least not to vote. I won't be critical though. If these idiots Martin and Harper have an election or referendum on gay marriage, I will become like the rest, and never set foot in a polling station again. And I have voted in every municipal, provincial and federal election for 22 years, except when my car broke down, couldn't get to the polling station and Bob Rae became premier of Ontario.