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Originally Posted by blankall
I don't think it's too far off. Maybe not 2021, but 1990. Around then we were still debating a lot of the basic human rights for gay people: marriage, adoption, even legality in some places.
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Our premiere was gung-ho against same sex marriage in
2004...and he had much of the support of the province.
It was only when his legal team told him that he wouldn't win the court challenges against the 2005 Civil Marriage Act that he finally conceded that gay marriage would be allowed to happen in Alberta (of which he was still against).
(Not really refuting your post at all, just sort of always crazy to me how even recent history had such vile positions here not to mention our eugenics board that existed until 1972 which sterilized a lot of Indigenous women without their consent or even knowledge).