In the province of Ontario, the words “wife,” “husband,” “widow,” and “widower” are now all to be stricken from the law. The words “mother” and “father” cannot be far behind.
Ontario’s action is a reminder that same-sex marriage is not just the extension of an existing legal status to previously excluded persons. Same-sex marriage is a revolution in the definition of marriage for everyone – a revolution not just in law, but in consciousnessness.
And one effect of this revolution – and for many proponents, one of the revolution’s aims – is to make forever unthinkable the idea that husbands and wives each have special duties to one another, and that a husband’s duties to his wife – while equally binding and equally supreme – are not the same as a wife’s duties to her husband.
Once we lose that knowledge, we lose the basic grammar of marriage. It is one more reminder that in the same-sex marriage debate, we are debating not marriage’s change – but marriage’s overthrow.
I think I’m going to hurl…..
What is the ultimate end after the total destruction of basic moral Canadian values has occord?
Is it the intent of these interest groups to ultimately end opposite sex marriage or unions?
This is one reason I think Roger Simon has miles to go before he becomes a fully rational man.
I can see a little gomorrah over that next hill.
What’s funny about all this is these groups don’t study history much. Don’t they realize that more wars have been started because of religion more then anything else.
There just itching for a confrontation with these continues attacks.
The further left they try to push, the further right the majority goes, and at some point, probably soon, that threads going to break. What’s sad is that ultimately they will lose and would have been better off if they would have left it alone.
I love Canada, it makes me feel so sane.
This country is gone completely nuts.
From Norms Spectator a couple of days ago, there was a report that Parliament has set up a special committee to cross the country regarding the same sex marriage debate. Haven’t seen any reports from bloggers on this, Just wondering if its at all significant.
“Parliament has set up a special committee to cross the country regarding the same sex marriage debate”
Going from gay bar to gay bar?
Going from gay bar to gay bar?
I think there looking for the big chunk of fudge….
Sorry, couldn’t resist.. ya left it wide open…. so to speak…
If I ever meet you I will remember to back away.
Going from gay bar to gay bar?
Could be Jay. I am somewhat sceptical when I read that three people on the committee are gay. Guess whose opinion they are gonna seek??
This thing has to be settled by referendum. But try getting Canadians off their asses to protest. Unless an issue directly affects them they dont give a shit.
Uh…Jay ..
Forget that….I’m as straight as they come, always have the soap on a rope ready just in case…ain’t bending over for nobody….and ain’t never gonna slip into shit either… so take that… 🙂
MikeP..What prov. you in, we been calling for a referendum, and no ones listening, not even the conservatives… 🙁
Keep a rein on the “terminology”, guys.
Alberta Rob. The reason the conservatives arent listening Rob is because they think they can win an election on the same sex issue. So they want it as an election issue and a referendum would nullify that. But check in with the Citizens Centre for freedom and Democracy, they have put signs up all across Canada, calling for a referendum.
Uh-oh, it’s doom for me – I has been shushed by Kate.
Sorry Kate….my fault, not Jay’s… get kinda carried away some times…slow response is due to a massive power outage here… 3800 homes… 🙁
Mike… I’ll due that…
Do people in Ontario care about this at all? It seems to me that they are the key to a change in government. They’ve seemed quite happy with the status quo.
Kate, did you know that Jack Layton is going to be on John Gormley tomorrow? I wonder what he’d say about this sort of thing.
David Frum’s Diary on National Review Online
Kate, a Canadian blogger, points readers to David Frum’s brief article from a couple of days ago:
In the province of Ontario, the words “wife,” “husband,” “widow,” and “widower” are now all to be stricken from the law. The words “mother” and “father…
Translating Frum Ferengi
David Frum is a ferengi. Don’t tell me there’s not a similarity. Certainly they think alike… Frum, a low-tax, small government conservative, believes that government defines for me the nature of my relationship with my wife?! Government defines nat…
What’s the big deal? So there’s no gender-based parent- or marriage- related terms in the law. Why should there be? Don’t we have a Charter that says people will not be discriminated against by sex?
Give me one reason why the law should differentiate “parent” from “mother” or “spouse” from “husband.”
um….. a mother is a woman and a husband is a man? who is the rational one here? for further distinction, if you still can’t tell the difference, you will need visual aids, easily procured on the internet. You may also speak to real people, not cardboard cutouts, to see that there is a difference, not only in the outer parts. get it?
Hmmm…interesting “terminology” is right. I was expecting someone to order the issue decided by a “rectumrendum”
sorry….sometimes I can’t help myself.
colin > You still haven’t answered my question, leading me to believe you have no answer as to why the law should differentiate “parent” from “mother” or “spouse” from “husband.”