Intolerance, Same-Sex Marriage and Old Books
The same-sex marriage bill (C-38) makes (in some peoples views) those who don't want to marry same-sex couples bigots or even in violation of the law (excluding religious institutions). Moreover, once it is law it therefore becomes against the law to speak out against same-sex marriages and homosexuality all together. But what about those people who get their beliefs from old books? Suddenly they can't preach passages in their chosen holy book since they are against the law. GREAT! Moreover it's happened before. Jews, Christians and Muslims have passages in their chosen books about other faiths and it has lead to many wars (if not almost all) in the past. That's not to say these books only advocate intolerance, they don't. They do in some places and contradict themselves in others (but that's no surprise to any of you). So although I don't like the government involved in peoples religion I don't feel it's wrong to not allow them to spread hate just because their chosen book has a few passages. That goes for other-faith intolerance, life-style intolerance (including same-sex marriage, divorce and woman's rights) or any other. If someone stood in the public area and said, "women where created to be the servants of man" (common interpretation of Genesis) and so they should have no rights as it used to be, he'd be humiliated and mocked. So why not the same response to homosexuals... I speculate fear of change. We'll too bad.
Luckily, although we "recognize the supremacy of god" we are a country of many faiths and so god seems to have many (contradictory) laws so we keep it out of real world politics, except for lip-service.
Luckily, although we "recognize the supremacy of god" we are a country of many faiths and so god seems to have many (contradictory) laws so we keep it out of real world politics, except for lip-service.
posted by Eddie | 6:06 PM
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How does the bill make "against the law to speak out against same-sex marriages and homosexuality all together"?
The text of the bill is here:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/38/1/parlbus/chambus/house/bills/government/C-38/C-38_1/C-38-4E.html
What I want to know, is why the government considers discrimination against same-sex marriage to be a violation of our people's human rights, but doesn't feel the same way about discrimation against polygamists?
Obviously all this talk about eqality and dignity is just bullshit. This is isn't about equality, it's about political correctness. If a muslim man marries several women then they throw him in prison! Where's the equality there?
This law may be a step in the right direction, but let's not pretend this is anything but a case of political correctness beating out religious doctorine. It's just one kind of narrow-mindedness versus another. Equality and freedom has nothing to do with it.
"Allowing same-sex couples to marry will enhance democratic values by promoting the equality and dignity of the individuals. The practice of polygamy has the potential to erode those values. These fundamental differences justify the different treatment, and explain why polygamy will continue to be prohibited under Canadian criminal law."
Department of Justice
February 2005
I agree. But then again what would "legal" poligamy look like? A male in the same house as many females with a document saying they all own each other's stuff and visitation rights in hospitals?
The way I see it marriage is nothing more than a contract of property, internally. The problem (and the reason we can't just get the government out of the whole thing) is citizenship and sponsoring etc.
As for the biggot question you'd have to ask the Conservative MP's. they repeated it many times.
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