Rationalising Ignorance

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We've all heard the standard bullshit run of the mill excuses for not wanting to marry homosexual couples (you know, that religious tripe being spewed by the Bible-thumping rednecks of the world), and the like that it'll wreck the institution of marriage... (see an earlier rant for a detailed covering on this).

But, never before has a province used the wording excuse to cleverly weasel out of marrying a homosexual couple. That was, until Prince Edward Island (PEI, Canada) was one of the two provinces (and territories).

P.E.I. at a loss for words over same-sex marriage.

So, the officials, being the lazy potato farmers they are, left the changing of the wording of the civil ceremony documents until the last minute and now are left scrambling because they can't fulfill their new obligations that have been given Royal Assention - in other words, legalised.

"We were consulting about whether or not we could just scratch out the words husband and wife, bride and groom, and maybe just put spouse and spouse," the province's attorney general, Mildred Dover, told CBC News.

"We're not even sure what words you'd use."

This is just an excuse to piddle around the tree and alienate the homosexual population. This is a very good tactic, though very different from that which has been employed by Alberta. Rather than refusing to marry homosexuals, since that is now illegal, the province is trying to get out of the marriage business and leave it strictly to the churches, whom under Bill C-38, are not legfally bound by law to unite in matrimony homosexuals couples. They, nevertheless, may do so voluntarily.

The only other two areas, the two northern territories of Nunavut (who while not allowing gay marriage in the territory have recognised out of territory licenses) and the Northwest Territories, are the only other ones before the passage of Bill C-38 to not have it on the books. The Yukon Territory did.

However, this piddling is very childish and infantile in the face of true intolerance, as currently being vehmanently displayed by the ever-religious hellhole of Iran.

There are no words to describe the horror of such intolerance...

Iran Executes 2 Gay Teenagers

"Homosexuality is illegal, those charged with love-making are given a choice of four deathstyles: being hanged, stoned, halved by a sword, or dropped from the highest perch"

This is the justification for their actions. This is giving every bloody bible-thumping redneck Christian wetdreams. My wager is that Conservative leader Harper would love nothing more than a chance to do that. He just can't come out and say it because it'll be political suicide. Then again, he already started to commit it when he made it publically known that he'd use the NotWithStanding Clause (from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms) to overrule Bill C-38.

Back on topic; this is just the exact kind of intolerance that the neo-conservative thrive off of. Their base, equally as uneducated rubes, drinks up this tripe, and makes for a perfect breeding ground of discrimination; too bad Nazi policies of utilising eugenics couldn't be applied to the stupid half of the population (aka, those damn fundamentalist and born-again Christians).

But, it seems that there is new fuel given to their argument as kindly provided by PEI - the excuse that the books haven't been changed to reflect the new wording in order to marry people of the same sex. Seems harmless, doesn't it? After all, no one has come right out and made a statement of intolerance. This is just a window dressing on blatant discrimination and some are buying it.