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Originally posted by RougeUnderoos@Oct 21 2005, 11:05 AM
So that's your argument? You just don't like it?
Why are they for it? I don't know. Why are you married?
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Who we are is the sum of our beliefs.
From a personal view, it's not that I dont like it, it is that I don't agree with it. Half of this nation feels the same, though there are a wide range of reasons why.
Politically, I dont like it because it was used by a hypocritical political party for self-serving reasons. The Liberals dont give a damn about the supposed rights of the gay community, they used the issue to press their conspiracy theories against the right, and it didn't hurt that it was a distracting issue from their corruption as well.
Afterall, the Liberals themselves, including Chretien and Martin were highly supportive of previous motions that defined marriage as between one man and one woman.
That all said, I am aware that the SCoC has decided that calling different things by different names is somehow discriminatory, and that the government had little choice. Personally, I would have preferred that the government refer to all unions as "civil unions" as the legal definition, and let everyone decide for themselves what constitutes a "marriage".