And Now the Rednecks Sweat....
I've never been shy about my total contempt for New Brunswick, the Armpit of Canada. The Maritime provinces are firmly stuck in the mid-nineteenth century (Nova Scotia actually had a plebecite about Sunday shopping recently. The religious fanatics won.) but New Brunswick is a particularly backward province. In order to make my point, I give you the premier of New Brunswick, Bernard Lord.
Now that the federal government has moved to entrench my rights as firmly as those of my straight friends, Premier Lord has decided to go ahead with legislation to "protect" churches from the onerous task of marrying Gay and Lesbian couples. I'm pretty certain his mother and father were first cousins , and they were allowed to marry, but that's beside the point.....
I have no problem with religious clubs who find it impossible to marry same sex partners. If the Catholic Club or the United Club or the Seventh Day Adventist Club want to exclude certain members, risking shortfalls as a result of lost membership dues, so be it. It's their budgets that will suffer.
Churches, on the other hand, are a whole different ball of wax. Churches take advantage of liberal tax laws, special status and "charity" designation. That means churches are responsible to the public purse that funds them.
That public includes little old Dykely me.
Unless Bernard Lord plans to protect every charity from doing anything they find distasteful (such as letting certain ethnic minorities, races, sexual orientations and people in certain tax brackets join their ranks) then he needs to keep his mitts out of the religious arena. Separation of church and state means that even socially and culturally retarded New Brunswick needs to play by the rules.
And Alberta. If New Brunswick is the armpit of Canada, Alberta is a boil on the ass of this great country. There are so many reasons to detest Ralph Klein and his band of tradition-loving, equality-hating cowboys. Alberta exists to prove that there will always be self-righteous, self-important twits willing to pretend bigotry and hatred are family values. Delusion, thy name is Wild Rose Country. King Ralph says that he's not allowed to use the Notwithstanding Clause, so he's getting Alberta out of the marriage game. Typical Klein, "if I can't win, I won't play." No worries though, all the open-minded, intelligent, forward thinking people in Alberta leave at the first opportunity. If a bunch of Stephen Harper clones want to populate Alberta, the rest of us in Canada should be grateful, at least they aren't polluting our provinces!
There's no turning back, now. The genie cannot be put back inside the bottle. Equality is ours, and now the rednecks sweat. Sooo-Weee!
Now that the federal government has moved to entrench my rights as firmly as those of my straight friends, Premier Lord has decided to go ahead with legislation to "protect" churches from the onerous task of marrying Gay and Lesbian couples. I'm pretty certain his mother and father were first cousins , and they were allowed to marry, but that's beside the point.....
I have no problem with religious clubs who find it impossible to marry same sex partners. If the Catholic Club or the United Club or the Seventh Day Adventist Club want to exclude certain members, risking shortfalls as a result of lost membership dues, so be it. It's their budgets that will suffer.
Churches, on the other hand, are a whole different ball of wax. Churches take advantage of liberal tax laws, special status and "charity" designation. That means churches are responsible to the public purse that funds them.
That public includes little old Dykely me.
Unless Bernard Lord plans to protect every charity from doing anything they find distasteful (such as letting certain ethnic minorities, races, sexual orientations and people in certain tax brackets join their ranks) then he needs to keep his mitts out of the religious arena. Separation of church and state means that even socially and culturally retarded New Brunswick needs to play by the rules.
And Alberta. If New Brunswick is the armpit of Canada, Alberta is a boil on the ass of this great country. There are so many reasons to detest Ralph Klein and his band of tradition-loving, equality-hating cowboys. Alberta exists to prove that there will always be self-righteous, self-important twits willing to pretend bigotry and hatred are family values. Delusion, thy name is Wild Rose Country. King Ralph says that he's not allowed to use the Notwithstanding Clause, so he's getting Alberta out of the marriage game. Typical Klein, "if I can't win, I won't play." No worries though, all the open-minded, intelligent, forward thinking people in Alberta leave at the first opportunity. If a bunch of Stephen Harper clones want to populate Alberta, the rest of us in Canada should be grateful, at least they aren't polluting our provinces!
There's no turning back, now. The genie cannot be put back inside the bottle. Equality is ours, and now the rednecks sweat. Sooo-Weee!
posted by Alphamutt at 5:53 PM
2 Comments:
Do you know a church that still does not celebrate interracial marriages ?
Same will happen with gay/lesbian mariages. A few years from now, their refusal will be seen as being so backward they'll have the choice either doing like everyone else or see their already miniscule audience shrink again to ... nearly nothing.
Do you know a church that still does not celebrate interracial marriages ?
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Yes, in Georgia - in one of the RED United States, naturally
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