Harper to move quickly on same-sex legislation

[sonicx]

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Render&c=Article&cid=1138315819123&call_pageid=968332188492

Stephen Harper says he wants to move quickly as leader of a fractious new Parliament to reopen the same-sex marriage debate.

The makeup of the new House of Commons suggests the prime minister-designate knows there's a good chance such a motion will be rejected.

It would not be a total loss, however. In fact, an honourable defeat on equal marriage would satisfy obligations to Harper's most right-wing supporters while defusing a politically explosive issue.

Winning a vote to wade back through that political quagmire would lead the Conservatives straight into a legal morass, most experts say.

[applegrove]

1. I'm sure Harper wants to get this off the agenda as soon as possible.

Thing is that I think the moment he looses, his followers will want him to try again. What a hellhole. All people have rights in Canada.

I think of my ancestors who arrived in Canada. And that first generation didn't have the option of marriage because there was no minister. So the year the minister arrived - everyone got married. They must have been happy to not have an ocean separating them from the ability to be married under god. They had to start their families without the all-important sanction of marriage. When a minister finally arrived - the whole county got married.

And here we are 200 years later... and there is a new ocean. Only it wasn't made by a billion years of continental shift or God (whichever works for you) - this time - the inability for thousands to have their families sanctioned under a god they believe in, or by society - that ocean was created by neocons and GOP groups... looking for a way to get power for their own narrow group. Looking for wedges. Looking for a way to control the very people who risked their lives to have freedom and a tiny kick at the can in North America. For two hundred years the world has gotten smaller. So that nobody is godless if they choose. Now they don't have the choice is they are gay.

What is it? What don't the leaders understand about the concept of universal rights?

[Canadian Socialist]

2. Hi sonicx!

see my rant in the Canada forum. I am sooo pissed off right now, I doubt I can be conherent for long.

[davidinalameda]

3. what utter bullshit

I just read an article about the Tories' upcoming legislative agenda and the spokesperson said same sex marriage wasn't in their top five

and now they're saying that they want a quick vote on the issue?

they've been taking lessons in lying out both sides of their mouth from the Repukes down here