Legal marriage for homosexuals?????

Well, you're an honest man, polemarch; I'll give you that. Thank you.
Its a lot better than leaving a possibly menacing salutation like:

No resentment here nonrev

And sorry about the menacing salutation :oops:

I've got my pie and am eating it too. The local foodbank also has pie, as do all of my friends, the squatter junkies close to work, everybody who lives in the boarding house a couple doors down and a couple of people who were waiting for the bus outside of work. 35 fucking pies they sent us, we needed 6 for the shot. You have no idea how hard it is to give away pie once the box has been opened.

Okay, completely off subject, but I couldn't see throwing it all away so my afternoon was a little difficult.

To get back to Polemarch's post though...the government isn't messing with anything. This law does not lessen a church's right to decide who it will or will not marry, it does not force you to go to gay weddings (with or without gifts). All it really does is extend the legal rights afforded to a spouse of the opposite sex to a spouse of the same sex. Big deal.

Christ, given the opposition to this you'd think that there'd just been a requirement passed for sodomy on the streets.

By creating their own definition of marriage and then trying to ram it down the country's throat with this new law they are messing with the churches. The churches/temples/mosques MUST have complete control over marriage as it is a religious rite, that includes it's definition.

Saying "No; we wont do that." seems like control to me......

The only control the churches lose is their ability to impose their beliefs on those that don't share those beliefs. They never should have been afforded that control in the first place.

Has there been a lesbian couple married yet? Or is it just a guy thing?
By the way, when do we get hetrosexual pride day parade?

I will never understand what the big deal is. Everyone is so worried about what other people are doing with their lives. We cannot choose who we fall in love with. Whether it is the opposite sex or the same sex. There are more important issues going on within this great country of ours, but yet we are so concerned whether or not our neighbors are gay. Why can't we leave these people alone and let them live thier lives the way they want to live. They are not hurting anyone. If you think that it might threaten our family values, well I got news for you, Our family values were shot to hell long time ago. I may not be gay myself, but I have friends who are. I support them 100% in what ever they do. If a man wants to marry a man, so be it. More power to him. Same goes with women. It's not like they are trying to have sex in public where everyone can see. So you might be offended because you see a man kissing another man in public, Get over it. I could say the same for a guy and a girl kissing in public. I think we should grow up a little bit and start supporting our fellow canadians a little bit more. We are starting to act more and more like americans every day. Is that what we really want?

Johnnyk have you read most of the posts here? You will see the majority dont actually oppose same sex couples, just the term "Marriage" I have stated that if thats what makes them happy fine, but just find another word for their union, dont call it "marriage"..

O.K. My question is, What the hell is marriage anyways? We never had marriage until the christians came along and forcing their religion on everybody else. I further believe that if these people want to spend their lives living together as a married couple, then give them that power. Who are we to start demanding that people in canada can and cannot do this or that. Last time I checked, Canada was a free country. If they want to classify them selves as married, so be it. Give them a marrage licence and leave them alone. As for you Highlander, I would think that in this day and age, discrimination would be a thing of the past. What business of your is it if two guys are married to each other. It does not affect you in anyway. I don"t understand why you would be so against somthing that doesn't even envolve you.I support same sex marriages. Next thing your going to tell me is that your against interracial marriages. All I can say is Deal with it because it's just a matter of time my friend.

JohnnyK.

Well, well.....

This may get interesting, johnnyk. I took a similar stance on this issue a while back and oddly enough, just after that, received a rather heavy-handed PM about another matter from an individual in this site. Just a coincidence, I'm sure....

I decided to have dick-all to offer on the subject as a result; I will be keen to monitor whether you find similar experiences.

File under: Things that make you go "Hmmmm......"