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Jun. 4th, 2006 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusEvil Canadian Politics
It's official. Harper's holding a vote next September on whether to re-open the issue of same-sex marriage.
The pundits (always a good barometer of Canadian realities, if one remembers to reverse everything they say) were certain he wouldn't raise the issue again. I'd argued with at least a half-dozen Harper apologists (mostly fiscal conservatives) who bought his newly-minted political makeover, and were certain this wouldn't happen.
Rumour has it that Harper originally wanted a fall vote, but that his cohorts in the religious right asked him to hold off so thatthey could have the summer to bully and cajole the softer supporters of same-sex marriage, organize letter-writing campaigns and the like.
So far, the majority of MPs polled are in favour of same-sex marriage, but the margin is not that comfortable, and a lot of the support is soft. Most don't want the debate re-opened, but a big enough threat of backlash from the straight supremacists and that could change.
I hate living in a situation where my fundamental humanity and access to the same basic rights is actually open to question.
Evil American Politics
Well, it looks like the 2004 election was stolen, too. Here's and excellent breakdown, step by step of the "irregularities" that cost the Democrats the election several times over.
The author of the article suggests these irregularities are deliberate, and the evidence is pretty strong. That means the most powerful country in the world hasn't had an elected leader in six years, and at the same time is clamping down on civil liberties.
This is very worrying for us up here, of course. Countries sliding into dictatorship are rarely nice neighbours.
It's official. Harper's holding a vote next September on whether to re-open the issue of same-sex marriage.
The pundits (always a good barometer of Canadian realities, if one remembers to reverse everything they say) were certain he wouldn't raise the issue again. I'd argued with at least a half-dozen Harper apologists (mostly fiscal conservatives) who bought his newly-minted political makeover, and were certain this wouldn't happen.
Rumour has it that Harper originally wanted a fall vote, but that his cohorts in the religious right asked him to hold off so thatthey could have the summer to bully and cajole the softer supporters of same-sex marriage, organize letter-writing campaigns and the like.
So far, the majority of MPs polled are in favour of same-sex marriage, but the margin is not that comfortable, and a lot of the support is soft. Most don't want the debate re-opened, but a big enough threat of backlash from the straight supremacists and that could change.
I hate living in a situation where my fundamental humanity and access to the same basic rights is actually open to question.
Evil American Politics
Well, it looks like the 2004 election was stolen, too. Here's and excellent breakdown, step by step of the "irregularities" that cost the Democrats the election several times over.
The author of the article suggests these irregularities are deliberate, and the evidence is pretty strong. That means the most powerful country in the world hasn't had an elected leader in six years, and at the same time is clamping down on civil liberties.
This is very worrying for us up here, of course. Countries sliding into dictatorship are rarely nice neighbours.