Mounties Set for Force's First Same-Sex Wedding

Washington Post ^ | June 6, 2006 | By Doug Struck, Washington Post Foreign Service

[aculeus]

TORONTO -- It promises to be a grand June wedding, two scarlet-coated officers of the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police standing before a justice of the peace with an escort of similarly spiffy Mounties observing the nuptials on the eve of Canada Day, a national holiday.

When the two constables become the first male Mounties to marry each other, the grumpiest witness-from-afar might well be Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The planned union of Jason Tree and David Connors in Nova Scotia on June 30 has cast a spotlight on Harper's pledge to his conservative backers to try to roll back same-sex marriage laws.

Harper has not spoken publicly about the upcoming wedding and has ordered his party members to shut up about the matter, an attempt to silence lawmakers that has served to draw more attention to the issue while sparking complaints about the prime minister's heavy-handedness.

"I think it's great if we change the public perception," said Tree, 27, who patrols a stretch of rural fishing communities along the Bay of Fundy. "If the public sees the RCMP as representing the diversity of the community, that is good.

[Petronski]

"Mounties" jokes anyone . . .

[Roy Tucker]

New meaning to the Mounties' motto, "We always get our man."

[mgc1122]

Queue up Monty Python's Lumberjack Song for the reception ...

[nuke rocketeer]

Who will mount who?....Oh, the possibilities for adult humor here!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Sgt. Preston of the Yukon is spinning in his grave.

[Reactionary]

"If the public sees the RCMP as representing the diversity of the community, that is good."

I can't wait for the RCMP cannibals, leather fetishists, and alien abduction adherents.

[Izzy Dunne]

Do right, Dudley, do right.

[subterfuge]

"I think it's great if we change the public perception," said Tree, 27, who patrols a stretch of rural fishing communities along the Bay of Fundy. "If the public sees the RCMP as representing the diversity of the community, that is good.

Why, Mr. Tree? Does it make one safer? Smarter? Or does it make you feel better about your perversion? You're about as smart as a tree.

[camle]

Dudly Dooright and Horse next?

[IncPen]

"I think it's great if we change the public perception," said Tree, 27, who patrols a stretch of rural fishing communities along the Bay of Fundy. "If the public sees the RCMP as representing the diversity of the community, that is good.

Brokeback Mounties.

[TommyDale]

"Dudly Dooright and Horse next?"

My exact thought! And we know that D.D. rode that horse backwards!

[atomicpossum]

"We put on women's clothing, and hang around in bars!"

[Red Badger]

Brokeback mounties? They always get their man!........

[theDentist]

I can see their soon-to-be-published story on the cover of People: "The Mountie and the Mountee" or "Bareback Mounties"

[little jeremiah]

Don't know if you want another one about this.

[Always Right]

Brokeback Mounties.

[macamadamia]

If the public sees the RCMP as representing the diversity of the community, that is good.



If not, then what? We'll all end up being Nazis? Because that's the logical end of all liberal arguments.

[camle]

Poor Nell Fenwick - second fiddle to a Horse... no wonder the inspector is so cranky...

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Dudley DoRight has always stuck me as a bit of a poofter.