06-22-2003, 06:39 AM
"Our country has a right to continue to recnognize Canadian marriages that conform to our societal norms (read: man and woman), while at the same time refusing to recognize those that do NOT conform (read: same-sex). You seem to think it's black and white: we either accept all, or we accept none. That is a poor, and inaccurate, assumption, IMHO."
It would be a very poor and innacurate assumption. And at no point did I make it. Nothing prevents you, in any particular case, for any particular reason, from denying any Canadian marriage. Sure, you'll piss off the Canuck ambassador, but that really doesn't matter much. All I'm saying is that this is one way in which change could come about, _if you choose it to_. Okay, I'm also saying you should probably change it, because it's a good idea. It's still your choice, though.
I've noticed that what I think doesn't mean jack in your country. That may be more true of your country than most. But this isn't a public policy forum on the official level. This is me. Jester. I'm talking to you, Roland, and to Occhi, and anyone else who may read this forum. I'm not speaking as the bloody whole Canadian nation. My audience is people, who live in the US, who might agree with me that this is a good idea.
If I overstepped my bounds doing THAT, then the world is a lot more Xenophobic than I thought it was.
Jester
It would be a very poor and innacurate assumption. And at no point did I make it. Nothing prevents you, in any particular case, for any particular reason, from denying any Canadian marriage. Sure, you'll piss off the Canuck ambassador, but that really doesn't matter much. All I'm saying is that this is one way in which change could come about, _if you choose it to_. Okay, I'm also saying you should probably change it, because it's a good idea. It's still your choice, though.
I've noticed that what I think doesn't mean jack in your country. That may be more true of your country than most. But this isn't a public policy forum on the official level. This is me. Jester. I'm talking to you, Roland, and to Occhi, and anyone else who may read this forum. I'm not speaking as the bloody whole Canadian nation. My audience is people, who live in the US, who might agree with me that this is a good idea.
If I overstepped my bounds doing THAT, then the world is a lot more Xenophobic than I thought it was.
Jester