Without the Canadian government recognizing my marriage as legal, I wouldn't be able to look at my husband and tell him "I Love You. You are my husband. We are as one."
My husband (originally from the US) moved here with me just this past month.
We didn't get married to make it easier for him to move to Canada (and in his words "Away from Bush and his nazis") - no - we decided to get married to pay tribute to our being dedicated to each other and for our own personal journey in finding happiness...with each other.
Harper is wasting the taxpayers dollars on something that has done NO HARM to the Canadian society since it was first allowed and recognized.
We're supposed to progress FORWARD as humans, not backwards. Evolving takes a lot of open minded people. Unfortunately Harper's ideals and morals are 50+ years in the past.
My husband and I just celebrated our second year of very happy marriage. The fact of our marriage doesn’t come up very often in routine daily interactions, but when it does I have found Canadians (I am Australian) to be universally thrilled, warm and supportive - proud in fact to be citizens of a country that not only tolerates, but celebrates unions such as ours. They are invariably horrified when I explain the unequal treatment of same-sex relationships in my home country in spite of its unmerited reputation for progressiveness and tolerance.
The theoretical possibility of marriages such as ours may offend some, but as far as I can tell, the actuality of our marriage has not harmed, corrupted or inconvenienced anyone one iota.
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Date: 2006-10-24 07:51 pm (UTC)Asswipes! >:(
As if there aren't 1,000,000,000 more important issues out there.
Lisa Andreas
Date: 2006-10-25 03:46 am (UTC)Αλλιώς θα χαθώ
Αν μείνεις κοντά μου
Τώρα και πάντα, θα σ' ακολουθώ
Σ' αγαπώ
And I highly envy your country in times like this -- but you know this, ne?
what i wrote...
Date: 2006-10-25 05:03 am (UTC)My husband (originally from the US) moved here with me just this past month.
We didn't get married to make it easier for him to move to Canada (and in his words "Away from Bush and his nazis") - no - we decided to get married to pay tribute to our being dedicated to each other and for our own personal journey in finding happiness...with each other.
Harper is wasting the taxpayers dollars on something that has done NO HARM to the Canadian society since it was first allowed and recognized.
We're supposed to progress FORWARD as humans, not backwards. Evolving takes a lot of open minded people. Unfortunately Harper's ideals and morals are 50+ years in the past.
He will not be missed.
Re: what i wrote...
Date: 2006-10-25 05:07 am (UTC)Mine didn't get published, but
Maximilian Parsons
My husband and I just celebrated our second year of very happy marriage. The fact of our marriage doesn’t come up very often in routine daily interactions, but when it does I have found Canadians (I am Australian) to be universally thrilled, warm and supportive - proud in fact to be citizens of a country that not only tolerates, but celebrates unions such as ours. They are invariably horrified when I explain the unequal treatment of same-sex relationships in my home country in spite of its unmerited reputation for progressiveness and tolerance.
The theoretical possibility of marriages such as ours may offend some, but as far as I can tell, the actuality of our marriage has not harmed, corrupted or inconvenienced anyone one iota.
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Date: 2006-10-26 07:21 pm (UTC)http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2006/10/26/bc-postal.html
The postal carriers I know are pretty lefty so I wonder how many of these will really get delivered (intact). Would be fun to pull a Banksy on this :)