The Fabulous Gay Marriage Bill
So politics is heating up for Canadians this week… things are looking good for the new budget and many are hopeful about the passing of the same-sex marriage bill. Present company included.
I just can’t wait for same-sex marriage to be legal and for the United States to lay off and accept that Canada has decided to honour its citizens with the freedom to happiness. Recently, there have been way too many American interest groups sending money to Canada in order to prevent the passing of the same-sex marriage bill, but I am hoping that once this bill is passed (hopefully next week) we can consider it water under the bridge. With the growing American national debt, I doubt that the Bush administration will complain much about the legislation… they need all the friends they can get!
I was talking on the subject of same-sex marriage with some other fellow conservatives last week and was forced to explain my ‘liberal’ stance on same-sex marriage. I explained that if marriage is supposed to be between a heterosexual couple for the purpose of reproduction, why are old couples and impotent couples allowed to get married? Marriage obviously has nothing to do with reproduction as many like to argue, but instead is a declaration of love and a contract that binds us financially to one other. One of the conservatives threw out a comment that homosexuals do not get married for love, they do it for money… well, if this is true, what is so wrong about two people willfully giving their own hard-earned pension to his/her spouse?
Although the new show My Fabulous Gay Wedding, hosted by Scott Thomson, is outrageously funny, I was pleased to see that they show the reality of gay marriage… the pain and heartbreak of when some relatives refuse to attend the wedding claiming that the act is wrong or that it is not a real wedding so they don’t need to attend. While some parts of the show are flamboyant and fun, I felt teary-eyed when they were interviewing the grooms about some of their relatives not showing up. It is good to see the pain that these people have to endure over intolerance in their own families and the happiness they can achieve by getting married and expressing their love for each other in a public setting. I mean, don’t we all want to shout our declaration of love from mountain tops?
Tolerance is temporary. Acceptance and understanding must be achieved. I will be rooting for the liberals on this one…