yelyos

http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle....toryID=2907451

The Ontario Court of Appeals just ruled a ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Just note that this could be appealed...our current Prime Minister says he is considering whether he will appeal or not, while his potential successors (he is planning to retire in Feb 2004) have said that they don't plan to appeal.

The court in which this decision was made is only one step below the Supreme Court of Canada.

Do you think this kind of decision will prompt anything in the US?

This might belong in PD, I don't know.

yguy

It will certainly prompt "gay" advocacy groups to point to Canada as a beacon of freedom, just a whiny teenager points to his friends' permissive parents as exemplary in an attempt to manipulate his own.

beoba

I'm failing to see the connection that yguy is trying to make, but thumbs up to Canada for letting people live their own damn lives.

Dr Rick

I think he's trying to show us that he can be just as whiny as any teenager...

yguy

This has nothing to do with homosexuals living their own lives, it has to do with forcing acceptance of how they live their lives on others.

Hedwig

How?

winstonjen

I'm with Hedwig. I don't understand what you're getting at. Does heterosexual marraige force acceptance on homosexuals?

yguy

I suppose it would if homosexuals tended to see heterosexuality as perverse. I've never heard any express such a view. The closest they seem to come is to imply that heterosexuals do - or secretly wish they did - the same things.

The Other Michael

As with heterosexual marriage, gay/lesbian/transgendered/bisexual marriage neither breaks my arm nor picks my pocket.

That holds true for any number of other behaviors that don't commit violence to people/property.

That isn't to say that some things don't annoy me, but someone's right to marriage (that doesn't involve violence/coercion) seems a rather large item to legislate away based on nothing more than annoyance.

I could probably think of things that some heterosexual married couples do that I might think perverse, but their ability to do that doesn't negate their right to get hitched.

I'm sure that there are numerous heterosexuals that wish they could be happy, stable, and providing good families to their children as do many committed g/l/b/t couples. So are they trying to keep non-hetero couples from getting married out of sheer envy/jealousy (dog in the manger style)?

cheers,
Michael

yguy

Can't speak for everybody, but at least some of us on this side of the issue are looking at the long term possiblities for erosion of moral infrastraucture. No way in the world will a nation survive if gender confusion becomes the norm; and that surely is where things like homosexual marriage are leading us.