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Originally posted by Flames Draft Watcher+May 17 2005, 09:34 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Flames Draft Watcher @ May 17 2005, 09:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-CaptainCrunch@May 17 2005, 09:11 PM
Saying that you support traditional marriage does not mean that your intolerant of homosexuals.# I don't know where you get that from.# It dosen't mean that they are against Homosexuals getting married, they just don't want to call it marriage.# In fact Harper talked about a social union, the same as marriage in every way but name.# Ohhhh what a boogie man.
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I completely disagree. Having two definitions for the same thing is discrimination. The hetero's get the "real" marriage while the homos get the "civil unions." What is the point in that? To appease Christian fundamentalists? All it does is say you're not good enough for the real marriage. We can't ban you completely from marrying so we've been forced to give you this other version of it. We won't allow you to share our term because we don't agree with your lifestyle and still want you to be considered sub-standard, we don't want to be seen as condoning your lifestyle.
Some people value equality. They want gays to feel normal, they don't want them to be discriminated against. They want to be tolerant of them and allow them to have the same status, privileges and rights that hetero's have. Allowing the "traditional" definition of marrige for hetero's and "civil unions" for gays does not do that. It segregates. It divides. It is discriminatory. [/b][/quote]
I'm not going to get into the whole gay marriage debate, I'm pretty clear that its an issue that I don't really care about. However the fact that people are equating inequality and discriminatory policy with a democratic free vote in the house of commons is an outright silly statement.
But its funny how easy it is to whitewall over a corrupt liberal government by throwing out words like intolerant, and hate, and KKK, and hidden agenda.
I guess I just don't get it, because everything is coming from one party.
I can only hope that the Liberal government falls on Thursday.