If only the government was as concerned about everything else as they are about this gay marriage thing. Don't really understand why there is so much fuss about it all. Can't see how it will hurt anyone.
You took the words right out of my mouth....This is not an issue that should be on the front page of the papers on a regular basis. Or advertisements ebing aired.
It turns out that the leader of the Conservative Party put on the Gay marriage ads without discussing it with his caucus. He didn't even mentino it to the man who betrayed his old party to form the Conservative party, Peter MacKay. I am not sure that it is wise to leader a party like this so agresive. It may happen that they will crash like the last time that they tried to merge.
Meh...if anyone wants to marry and it does not impact my life, why should I care.....
The Conservative Party is still "one" party. Social issues are not matters of Party policy, but it is up to each member. Mr. Harper is expressing where he and a good majority of the MPs stand on this issue.
May be Belinda hid the memorandum from MacKay?
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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
Winston Churchill
Well, my first post...
I see a cpl of u have this "i dont care" attitude. "As far as it's not about me, why shud i care?" Well, I'd tell u that u ought to care cos we live in the same society regardless of our sexual preferences. Down the road, in about 10-20yrs time, u'll end up having to fill forms about ur sexual preference, believe it or not...not that it matters, but it wud become a norm that new born babies wud think it's normal to look at ur same sex and the other sex as well.
From the tone of my first paragraph, u'd have probably guessed my position on this issue...and yeah, i'm against it. Be not deceived. Homosexuality is NOT normal....that's why u have the penis and vagina and that's why two males or two females cannot reproduce a kid. Nature has made it such that the union of a man and a woman gives birth to a new life....now do we accept homosexuality as a result of our selfish sexual fantasies and abandon our responsibilities as humans in preserving life? Afterall, preserving life aint a big deal cos if our fore-fathers refused to be joined to our mothers, we wont be born today and we wont have this problem. But hey, everyone is entitled to his/her sexual preference and fantasy...it ought to be a free world afterall...and that's why i'd also advocate that if gay unions are allowed, incests, necrophilia (sex with corpses), etc shud be allowed as well....it's a free world and everyone shud adopt the "i dont care attitude" and not frown at those pple who choose those sexual preferences.
When it comes to marriage, that's a different case all together. There's what they call "the sanctity of marriage". Our fore-fathers knew what that meant but today, heck, anyone can call a justice of peace and recite a few incantations without knowing the meaning and it's done. U can go as far as asking Brittany Spears how she did hers. Ever wondered why the divorce rate has risen over the decades in the western world? If u have some time, do some research about the divorce rates in developing countries (whateva that means) like India or even African countries...the difference wud be glaring. Why? Is it that those pple in the developing countries recognise what marriage is better than us in the supposedly developed world? Why wud u want to marry someone based on the fact that the sex is great? Does that mean that when the person can no longer give u great sex, u loose interest and divorce almost immediately? It's an awful trend in the society today and it pains me when i work into a factory and see old men working their socks off cos they had at least one divorce case at a point in their life and are trying to make ends meet. Hey, it's become a way of life that i'm sure some of u think i'm yapping crap....but take a minute or two to punder on these. Now, why wud u want to introduce gay marriages? As a gay couple, u cant produce children. You may argue that u can do things together, quite alright...but u can also do the same things together as friends...so why the point of getting married? just for the heck of it? And i hear some gay cpls going as far as adopting children...why wud u want to corrupt the younger ones with ur selfish sexual acts? If u wanted a kid, why not go make one? At least, someone went thru 9mths for the kid u're trying to adopt....
Too bad, this on-going debate about gay unions raises lots of questions and it's sad that lots of answers that fail to define common sense logic have been implemented. At the end of the day, it's a free world...so why shud i care?
Why does the actions of other people concern you so much? I can think of a lot worst conditions from children to be raise under than two loving women (or men) that are in a strong, committed relationship.
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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
Winston Churchill
Why does the actions of other people concern you so much? I can think of a lot worst conditions from children to be raise under than two loving women (or men) that are in a strong, committed relationship.
Look up the words, "Community" and "Society". Your profile says u're in the goverment and u're interested in politics. Do u really understand the essence of a "government"? Cos if u did, u wont ask that question.
In simple terms, the actions of others bother us cos we leave in the same community or society. We ought to have the same sense of belonging!
Well, I can think of a lot of things that people do in a community that bother me, none of which I would want to use the force of the state to correct.
It is not the job the government to create and model society, its role is limited to ensuring that laws are upheld, not cultural norms.
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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
Winston Churchill
Well, I can think of a lot of things that people do in a community that bother me, none of which I would want to use the force of the state to correct.
It is not the job the government to create and model society, its role is limited to ensuring that laws are upheld, not cultural norms.
Society as it is today has implicitly affected the laws of the land as they stand today. It is fair to say that the laws have also affected cultural norms.
The laws of the land over the years has reflected the culture that they were written to serve. If the governments hadn't changed laws, rewritten them, or taken them off the books altogether society would be in a stand still. At some point, we can imagine, a bunch of guys sat down and said "we're going to make all these rules and call them laws". These reflected the ideals at the time, and must change to reflect the expressed interests of today's society.
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