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No.2 is one of your issue: having the same two parties in each layer of your political scenes.
ReplyDeleteHere, we don't have such a divisive situation because we have multiple parties on local, provincial and national. They don't have such link one to each other.
No.3 We have since decades what we call «gay unions» as we avoid calling it «marriage» refering to a religious practice. Even straight couples can register civily their union without going to a church. We separate religion from legal marriage.
LGBTQ rights are protected by our Canadian Charter of Rights and Liberties since 1982.
There is SO MUCH at stake this time.
ReplyDeleteWe must ignore the lies about higher crime in Blue states and urban areas, ignore the lies about Dems causing inflation when it is corporate greed.
We must vote as if our very existence depends on it. I have seen what living under authoritarianism is like and, trust me, it is not pretty. Seeing a old woman, bent with age and arthritis being made to sweep the streets "to earn her keep" was horrifying. If we lose this vote, that's what we have to look forward to.
But don't make the mistake of thinking that should the Dems prevail that things will be fine. It is going to get very ugly regardless of Tuesday's outcome.
Pat - Yeah, the elections will not be the end of the nightmare.
ReplyDeleteJust got back from voting - straight-ticket Democrat. I am nominally an Independent, but I would not vote for my best friend for dog catcher if he ran as a Republican at this point.
ReplyDelete@JiEL - there is officially no religious component to marriage in the US in terms of the government. There is no need of having anything to do with a church to get married, whether you are straight or gay - I don't see any reason to have two different terms for what is at the end of the day the same thing - a legal contract. Of course religious people think that there is, but it is entirely your choice to have a civil ceremony in a municipal office (or your backyard or on a beach) or have a religious ceremony in a church. The paperwork for the government side of things is the same either way.
@KevinRhodes,
ReplyDeleteI know that in USA you also have civil «marriage» as I have two gay couple friends in Delaware and Florida that are «married» on civil ceremonies.
What I wanted to also express is that when you say «marriage» this is letting those narrow minded ultra religious guys to be mad about using the word marriage for gay unions.
That's why it could be better to separate those words of civil union and marriage.
Hope that the faith of «LGBTQ» civil unions will not be at stake at it was in your country for the Roe vs Wade.
@ JiEL - Sadly, the legality of LGBTQ marriage will be an issue brought before the SCOTUS. So will other rights acquired by SCOTUS arguments based on the same privacy laws that Roe was based on.
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