A Vote Against Tolerance
Today, some elected representatives in our national parliament will be voting to say "While gays and lesbians currently enjoy the same rights and freedoms as all of us normal people, we think some of those rights should be revoked". Well, hell, while we are at it why don't we vote to revoke women's right to vote? Why don't vote to send 10 year olds into factories to fill the gap in supply of cheap manufacturing workers and maximize profits? In fact, why don't we just solve this problem at its root and vote to make Christianity our offical religion?
If Christianity were our official religion, then maybe we could all forget about these troubling, complex laws and live by the wonderful fairy tale lessons of the bible. It'd be great. We could all get married, have kids and go to church. And when our kids were old enough, we could send them off to other countries to maim and kill people who aren't Christians, because, hey, let's face it: God loves that shit. On the weekends, we could roast marshmallows over burning witches (i.e. university educated women) and covet our neighbours asses! Oops, wait that's a no no. I forgot that anything with the word ass in it is bad.
Turbans? Burkas? Sikh daggers? Male sarongs on Church Street? They'd all be banned. But all the barbarians would be compensated with free Jesus is My Homeboy shirts paid for by your tax dollars!
Look, Stephen Harper would have Canadians believe that he is doing this out of principle, but it is nothing more than cynical window-dressing for the ugly truth: He is trying to appease a portion of his constituency that is bitter and intolerant. And he is counting on ahandful of bitter, intolerant Liberal caucus members to help him. The only lynching these draconian fucking goobers will see - Liberal and neo-con alike- will be their own political lynching at the hands of their own defeat today.
Trample on others rights in your own backyards you insensitive assholes, but leave the established charter rights of citizens as valuable as your own children alone. Mark my words kiddies, Harper will burn at the polls for this.
UPDATE: I'm reposting this one today as well sexies. Vote is today. Harper and his cabinet ministers didn't even bother to stick around for the debate last night. It's that important to those hit 'n run social policy trolls.
If Christianity were our official religion, then maybe we could all forget about these troubling, complex laws and live by the wonderful fairy tale lessons of the bible. It'd be great. We could all get married, have kids and go to church. And when our kids were old enough, we could send them off to other countries to maim and kill people who aren't Christians, because, hey, let's face it: God loves that shit. On the weekends, we could roast marshmallows over burning witches (i.e. university educated women) and covet our neighbours asses! Oops, wait that's a no no. I forgot that anything with the word ass in it is bad.
Turbans? Burkas? Sikh daggers? Male sarongs on Church Street? They'd all be banned. But all the barbarians would be compensated with free Jesus is My Homeboy shirts paid for by your tax dollars!
Look, Stephen Harper would have Canadians believe that he is doing this out of principle, but it is nothing more than cynical window-dressing for the ugly truth: He is trying to appease a portion of his constituency that is bitter and intolerant. And he is counting on ahandful of bitter, intolerant Liberal caucus members to help him. The only lynching these draconian fucking goobers will see - Liberal and neo-con alike- will be their own political lynching at the hands of their own defeat today.
Trample on others rights in your own backyards you insensitive assholes, but leave the established charter rights of citizens as valuable as your own children alone. Mark my words kiddies, Harper will burn at the polls for this.
UPDATE: I'm reposting this one today as well sexies. Vote is today. Harper and his cabinet ministers didn't even bother to stick around for the debate last night. It's that important to those hit 'n run social policy trolls.
Labels: Harpocrites, Human Rights, Politics
posted by K-Dough at 6:00 AM
38 Comments:
If I had a total lack of morals, and a hundred good friends, I could so get into parliament by running as Conservative in a great many ridings, sad to say.
Very sad... but also sad that many spineless liberals are probably teetering on the fence right now as well.
I say all MPPs should vote with their conscience today; screw the constituents and come what may. I don't believe a majority of Canadians are that shortsighted, mean-spirited and stupid.
I dunno, K-Dough. Even with all the watered down main stream shows (Will and Grace, Queer Eye, etc....which unfortunately paint all gays as eccentric, self absorbed, over-sexed comedians...hey, wait a minute..that actually describes ME fairly accurately..), and all the public figures who are open about their sexuality (though I wish Brison and Svend stayed in the closet)there are still a lot of homophobes out there. We are still in the dark ages.
I'm not saying WHY, but I'll be watching John Baird's vote very closely.
Oh, it's always easy to spot an angry queen. (Remember him screaming "liars liars" when the McGuinty caucus started.)He tries to disguise it with cheap suits and a bad haircut, but it didn't get by me.
I hope that you are wrong, leather. I'd like to think we've come a little farther than that. I hope.It is very depressing to think there are that many homophobes in Canada.
LOL angry queen. I've known a few...
KD - technically, being anti-SSM is not a neokon thing, its a theokon thing. I admit, we are all evil in some fashion, but we are also very sensitive about how we are labelled.
CC- I thought I made it clear that I do not believe this is primarily a partisan thing. If I didn't, I'd like to now.
I do not in any way, shape or form believe that all CPC supporters are evil cave-people who are anti-gay marriage or anti-homosexual for that matter. Neither do I believe that about all Christians.
I despise narrow-minded, religiously motivated idiots who try to impose their moralistic rules upon others. Our courts have already said this is about human rights. It's law. Our laws are the purest institutional reflection of social change.
The cro-magnon religious minority that disagrees can move the fuck out of Canada if they don't like it.
I have gay friends that I love and respect the same as any other friend in my life. I take it seriously personally when some pea-brained fuck tries to tell me that my gay friends are less of a person than I am.
Stephen Harper- not his caucus- is responsible for dredging up this sham vote for self-aggrandizing aims regardless of it's hurtful effect on other human beings or Canada at large.
Fuck him- hard and dry.
I'd have to agree with Leatherhands.
There was a time when I thought we as Canadians had become, I hate to use the word tolerant of homosexuality, but realized a couple of years ago such is not the case.
I, a hetrosexual male was dressed for Halloween in what some may say a flamboyent costume, white Alien with medical tubing for dreadlocks and blue LED eyes. Regardless, while walking home from the club I was attacked with a barrage of homophobic comments from passer-byes. All toll there must have been 6 hateful verbal assults on me that night from college to Queen St. Shocked to say the least that an urban centre such as Toronto still clung to such hate. What really floored me was that those who commented had no reservation in vocalizing how they felt. I thought 2 thoughts. 1. It's Halloween, a time when one can express themselves creatively without question. 2. Do gays still experience such hate when walking hand in hand down the streets of Toronto. Yes they do.
That moment I experienced what it felt like to be on the receiving end of a hate crime and it din't feel good.
Oh! BTW while walking along church and Charlton I was complimented by several gay men on my costume. In retrospect I should have hit the church street strip - I may have won first prize.
Sad...
K.
I think many are framing it as a demand from their constituents. Like any riding is exclusively populated by fundamentalist Christians in Canada.
The 80's were much worse for that sort of homophobia. I had a few gay male friends that didn't "come out" until their late 20s, if at all. My kids have openly gay male & female friends and I'm so happy that we've moved forward at least enough for some gay kids to feel comfortable enough to have an open life, unlike the kids I grew up with. It's a small step.
Leatherhands - I hear ya and I'm sorry that you are one more soul who has the finger pointed at you.
People were violent with me that night and I was starting to feel a little uneasy and I'm not gay, nor was I doing anything wrong, and if I were gay, I still wouldn't have been doing anything wrong.
After my experience I spoke to a friend of mine who is gay and he said that it happens to him often. I was quite shocked knowing this and felt some shame as a hetrosexual that people could be so cruel and narrow minded.
I believe in humanism. This debate over same sex marriage, feminisim etc. has become tired. What we know in the past must be scrapped because that world no longer exists.
The institution of marriage is not reserved for male and female and with the divorce rate as high as it is, how much stock does it really have anymore. How cares who wants to marry who. It's about choice and freedom.
My cousin's marriage was the first gay marriage in Barrie and I'm proud that I attended and was part of that history. Honestly it was no different then any other wedding one attends. Food, booze, a cake and 2 people celebrating their love. What else is there.
And yes, there are many gay men that should, and could exercise their maleness and kick the shit out of these little fuckers who bash.
I found the majority of comments came from packs of young men.
I guess there is truth in the idea about the crowd. Abstract hands, and abstract voices collectively believe they are strong. Well, single each out and one really sees how tough one is.
Peace my friend as a straight man I'm with you.
K.
K- you bring up a good point about the divorce rate. It kills me that defenders of the definition of marriage remaining only between man and woman never mention the fact that the revered traditional institution fails miserably in over 50% of all marriages. They don't mention the costs to families, children and the public either.
These days you can't say marriage is a traditional institution that our country is based on, unless you also say that divorce is a traditional institution our country is based on.
KD and Charlie Bernard:
MY MP, Francis Scarpellegia, is a Liberal and anti-SSM.
(The Tory candidate against him was pro-SSM). Ha! Gotta love Quebec.
Many lilly-livered morons I spoke with in my riding would say, "I'm scared of the Tories.." and bring up SSM.
[full disclosure: I don't let my neighbours know that I'm a right-wing freak]
Anyway, the irony, they voted against the pro-SSM person in favour of the anti-SSM person in order to protect themselves from the anti-SSM persons! Ha!
Oh, and Hollywood marriages killed "marriage" years ago. Thanks Liz Taylor!
i'm allowed to vote?
Madonna killed vaginas years ago with an empty bottle of Pinot Grigio.
Let me assure you that vaginas are alive and well, CC.
Vaginas are like Santa...just because you don't see them doesn't mean they are not real.
K-Dough- YES
K.
pam, that was beautiful.
now, if I can take it low and serious for a minute.
once, in high school, i was walking the old port with my girlfriend. it was late and three drunk business stumbled in our way and looked at us curiously and then laughed. then they started calling me "le p'tit juif" and "eh, p'tit juif".
in was a little scary. she was mexican, so looked, I guess, sephardic and my nose hit puberty about 2 years sooner than the rest of me, so I fit the stereotype - big-nosed anglo.
my point? lots of stuff is everywhere coming from people who are in one condition oppressed and in another condition oppressors.
how this applies to vitriol towards either side of the SSM debate is for you to decide.
I hate to display intolerance (internalized homophobia, I hear you say), but "male sarongs" on Church Street. They should be banned!
Fortunately, I haven't seen one of those around in years.
See my other recent bons mots a couple of posts down kids, re John Baird.
Although on the cause I agree with MS more "... something else is going on... This is a distraction!" than the great K-Dough himself "... dredging up this sham vote for self-aggrandizing aims ..."
However, as for the cure, well, K-Dough trumps again!
Rather than MS' stance "SHow how much you want quebec to stay and how much you love them by voting for a quebec MP to become PM.", the K-Dough plan is at once "straight"forward and clear: "Fuck him- hard and dry."
And Voila! He'll be singin' along with "Sally" at the next hitchin'!
Great post and comments!
What about David Emerson, who voted YES to ssm way back when, but tomorrow will have to vote again...
It's been delish watching the speakers on the debate. Siksay was awesome.
Dog Gone It: are you high?
MS: I understoood your first comment but it seemed like you took a hit on the pipe before turning into your alter ego. Either way I kinda get it now.
K shared his flamboyant shirt story, so I might as well. In high school I wore a bright shirt, Hawaiian style once. If course while minding my own business the biggest failure in the school comes up to me and refers to me as a loser and/or gay or something along those lines (despite me being neither, and him quite possibly both).
Handcuffs?
And that's not all Pam- I wore a real chainsaw blade as a freakin' belt and my buddy wore a studded dog collar.
We wuz the talk of the school I tell ya. Avril Lavigne would have shit her spandex if she saw the threads we wuz wearin' back then.
She would have loved ya.
I'm three years older than you, and I remember "those boys" well. When I was in grade 12, you were in grade 9...I would have handcuffed you to the taps in the girls bathroom.
Thanks Kev (et al) for the insightful post and comments. I happened to catch a news piece last night where, though a secret camera, the reporter taped the homophobic comments of a bunch of people riding in cabs. Despite how comfortable I can feel at times in downtown T.O., it still hurts to be reminded that people really don't like you, let alone hate you, for being just who you are.
Diku- you'd do the same for me.
Pam- you wouldn't have had to...
csis is on top of this one and has wired the sexual organs of all mp's debating...that's why harper and his crones left, they couldn't face the 'green light woody' signals every time homosexual was mentioned. besides, they had to meet with paiges in the backrooms.
Scout- your obsession with genitalia makes me feel like we are kindred souls!
No, no!! HEALTHY INTEREST. It sounds much nicer.
pAM- Call a spade a spade:
In my case, it's full blown GENITALOPHILIA!!!
K said: "In high school I wore a bright shirt, Hawaiian style once... while minding my own business the biggest failure in the school comes up to me and refers to me as a loser and/or gay or something..."
You're right. That guy was a loser. No gay man in his right mind would wear a Hawaiian shirt! :)
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