Canada Continues to Confound Conservatives.

Kind of makes me glad that I live up in Canada and not in the homophobic United States. I mean we have enacted same sex marraige and yet the right wing nuts continue to froth at the mouth and try to stem the tide of equality for all, including Gays.

Different story in the States where gay bashing is rising and states rush to push for amendments to deny equal rights to their Gay citizens. Course its okay for them to die in Iraq, but once their tour is done, its not okay.

Double Standard bullshit again.

The opposition Liberal party in Alberta once more stymied the private Conservative MLA bill that would reduce the penalty for those who profess love, while practising hatred and bigotry. ( full story at 365Gay )

Funny, even in Conservative Country, there are still enough sane people who will stand up and be counted, and stand for what truly makes a country Democratic. The ability to go beyond the narrow confines of a religious doctrine and not force its narrow view on all people.

Canada is one of those nations, unlike the United States, where the power of the Church it seems is not so powerful. The Federal Liberals risked it all to insure that ALL CITIZENS were treated equally under the law, and now even with a Conservative Government, that law seems unikely to change. With all opposition parties stating they will not support a re-opening of the debate, the minority Klan party of Stephen Harper are looking at defeat if they try it. Thank God.

Now even in the heartland of their blessed nonsense, the AlbertaLegislature failed to once more wittle away at all that has been won. Something Americans should learn from. See, if you give an inch, they will take a foot, then a yard, then a mile and before you know it, the rights you fought hard to win are suddenly gone.

Bill 208 would forbid anyone from being punished legally for refusing to solemnize a same-sex marriage or for speaking out on or acting on their beliefs against gay marriage. It would also put limits on the discussion of same-sex marriage in schools. (full story)

On the surface, these new tactics by the right wing or the so called religious right, are not all that insidious. On the surface. It is when you read through them you see the insidious plot that eventually would lead to the collapse of all equality for Gays and Lesbians. This is a tactic well used within the United States as you see individual states now limiting abortion rights for women, and even fudging petitions for same sex marraige opposition bills, and at least in Alberta it failed.

Thank God for Canada. Now if only the same common sense and sense of honor existed in the USA. What a world this would be !