I am So Proud of Canada Tonight

[jamesq]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/06/28/samesex050628.html

Comments

[petranef.livejournal.com]

YES!

(But let's disappear ole Harpo there, mkay?)

[rato-do-perigo.livejournal.com]

Okay so the Liberals aren't so evil. Stop making me almost vote for them!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/-grog-/]

It still has to get through the Senate and Royal Assent. (The latter mostly being an informality though)

As for Harper, I can't quite decide if he should resign, or stick around - he's kind of amusing in a dark sort of way. (Kind of a black humour version of Sgt. Schultz and Col. Klink all in one)

Besides - with him around, there's little chance of the CPC winning seats in Quebec...(or urban Ontario)

[ladyerwyn.livejournal.com]

Another reason in favor of my moving to Canada and out of the US. Canadians aren't backwards assed Ass heads.

[slavewench.livejournal.com]

WOOT!! Thanks for keeping me informed - I don't listen to the news anymore.

[rato-do-perigo.livejournal.com]

Now will there be the ability to use the "not with holding" clause that Mr.Klein likes to threaten? There are no gay people in the State Of Alberta!

[jamesq]

Ralph (when asked by the media) said it's a waste of time because they would ultimately lose.

No gays in Alberta? That would surprise a number of friends of mine as they vanished from existence.

[catalytic.livejournal.com]

Oh they won't disappear... they'll be cured! After all, gays are just confused hetero's who need God's guiding light to...

Okay, I couldn't finish... funny as it was to pretend, I had actual bile rising in my throat. Herk.

Is the cure worth it?

[nosarious.livejournal.com]

I was reading See magazine today. You probably don't have anything like it in Calagary now that the Strait bought out the whatever it was that Calgary once had as an independent newspaper.

In it is a story about Zach, a 16 year old in Bartlett Tenn. who recently came out to his parents.

In the typical fundy way they have had the audacity to proclaim his unworthy of making his own decisions about sexuality and have sent him off ot be 'normalized' in a camp called "Love in action" where people are 'cured' of their personal sexual identity.
It's a harsh read.

original article which was printed in See magazine

I'm sorry to get on a soap box for such an innocent comment (I know it wasn't a real viewpoint). I just find it ironic to read the article just today and then have the opportunity to bring it up in the conversation.

[rato-do-perigo.livejournal.com]

Perhaps my sarcasm didn't translate well to the comment field. Sorry. I'll inform my friends Nicholas and Raymond that there will be a cure on the way. You're right it's just too silly to finish.

[nikitaa.livejournal.com]

It's an epidemic with Canada leading the way...

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/06/30/spain.gay.vote.ap/index.html

Recognizing the inevitable

[nosarious.livejournal.com]

You're right. It's nice to see a government actually risking their own future by doing something which may only benefit a small portion of the population, but will win the respect of the entire world (except for Red America, of course)

At the risk of defining my own families values, my Mom once remarked how she thought these people (her words) shouldn't be talking about things like this. "It's improper, and no one needs to know about it. They shouldn't be on television forcing me to see it".

I tried to emphasize that the only way to make changes is to make people aware of the problems. I even mentioned Womens' Suffrage, and the difficulties they had in getting their voices heard.

Of course, I don't think anything I said made a difference. My Mom almost had a coronary when she found out I had a nipple ring. Imagine if she found out I had a tatoo...

The way I see it, things like this are inevitable. It's the ability to recognize this simple fact and work towards the long term goal instead of trying to maintain a short term status quo that currently sets the liberals apart from the others.

Now if only they would recognize the potential of being the only source for hemp products (not pot) in NOrth and South America, and the money that is to be made from cloth and paper products with a renewable resource. Then I would be truly impressed.