My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)
Opponents of same-sex marriage are now clearly saying - Told you so - now that a study has come forward recommending that Canada legalize polygamy. However, the study says that the challenge to the charter would come under the freedom of religion section. This really has nothing to do with same-sex marriage at all.
posted by GayandRight @ 11:07 AM
My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)
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This is what the liberals want, a multicultural wasteland of gay porn.
We must stand up for Canada
-for Christ
-against terrorists
-against the polygamists and others hoping to poison our children's mindss.
Vote HARPER!
Hmmm...polygamy. Now I can get that dishwasher the wife always wanted.
SSM and polygamy are related. Once the definition of marriage became that it is only an issue of property rights and taxes between two adults, the number of adults becomes arbitrary.
Why only two? Why can't they be related?
The new definition of marriage says that children are not a factor in a marriage and therefore neither is sexuality. Anyone, liberal, marxist, red tory etc, who was for SSM can't back down now.
To say this is about freedom of religion is extremely disingenuous and I think you know that.
But of course to admit that means to admit the so-cons are also right that sooner or later there will be a case forcing them to marry two people of the same gender.
And please, do not resort to freedom of religion in the charter. Freedom as a principal will be redefined to accomodate this too.
I just hope that when this happens we have a strong Prime Minister Harper to fight it off.
Don't forget that the slipery slope argument leading to moral decay was also use in the context of interracial marriage in the US.
BTW should it mean that interracial marriage should be banned now since the people at the time were overwhelmingly against interracial marriage? Afterall, it was 'activist judges' that struck anti-miscegenation laws down. Didn't the legislators at the time deserve a free vote on this issue??? I don't see many so-cons (although I'm sure some of them hold secret grudges about this) complaining about this today.
As for polygamy issue in comparision to SSM, I'll only offer this link:
http://www.indegayforum.org/authors/carpenter/carpenter46.html
While I agree that the approach taken in the fight for SSM is not the same as that which will be taken for polygamy, I think it is incorrect to summarily dismiss the effect that SSM has had on marriage as an institution. By that I mean, do you honestly believe polygamy would even stand a fighting chance had SSM not first charged the gates?
The authors of the report make it pretty clear that it's the freedom of religion clause that MIGHT be used to fight for polygamy. Of course, this hasn't happened yet.
The fight for polygam will be fought on its merits.....not on gay marriage.
Sorry, there is just no connection at all. Each issue has to be fought on its merits, and I suppose that each one will.
Same-sex marriage was not fought on freedom of religion, but on the fact that sexual orientation is protected under the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Polygamy MIGHT be fought on appealing to Freedom of Relgion...or it might not. But, whatever the Courts of the House of Commons do on polygamy will have nothing to do with SSM
Trudeau may have ruined this country, but one thing he was absolutely, 100% correct about is that, "the government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation". The government has no business in sanctioning any marriage whether it be heterosexual monogamist, homosexual, polygamist, nor any other between consenting adults. If an adult in any "union" is not consenting, we already have kidnaping and rape laws to cover those areas. It is time for the government to get out of the marriage business all together. I really don't understand why homosexuals are so keen on being allowed to get married... you should have just gone and gotten married. Period. It is between you and your partner, and whomever you choose to officiate whatever ceremony you want. You are like a bunch of kids who grew up and still plead with your parents for permission to stay out late, or to let you go to the movies, or whatever. You are now an adult and you don't need the f***ing government to tell you, "that's ok, we will let you get married now". It is none of their goddamn business. That is what homosexuals should be standing up for, along with heterosexuals, and any other consenting sexuals. Oh well, I guess sheep will be sheep.
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