[Theosis]

Folks, this is just across the border!

[Theosis]

ping!

[AZLiberty]

Perhaps this is Canada's version of homeland defense. Now all the Muslims will go back home.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Comparing gay marriages to 9-11? Yeah, not melodramatic at all. *roll eyes*

[Mr. Mojo]

Definitely a nasty day in Canadian history, but to compare it with the killing of thousands of people is a bit insane.

[Wilhelm Tell]

How long before it is a "hate crime" for a church to refuse to "marry" a same-sex "couple?" Whereas before I'm sure some very liberal "churches" had "wedding ceremonies" for same-sex "couples," there were more conservative churches that only recognized traditional marriage. So you were free to go to a liberal church or a more traditional church, depending on your beliefs about a number of things.

You know it won't be good enough for the homosexists to have their liberal churches and to let the conservative churches alone. No, they will use the force of government to make traditional churches accept homosexual "marriage" or disband. There will not be the SLIGHTEST toleration towards anyone who doesn't follow the official dogma -- all in the name of "tolerance" and "diversity." Also, it is interesting how the left for years used to go on about how "useless" and "worthless" marriage was. Their ideal was brief, undemanding relationships and they ridiculed love and commitment. In the past five years marriage has gone from being an anachronism to being the most important thing in the world to the left (as long as it's "gay" marriage).

[irgbar-man]

My advice to the American people? This has taken place not in the distant future, but just across your northern border by a group of people who for the most part look and sound like Americans. So begin lobbying your elected officials now for a constitutional ammendment to protect the common definition of marriage.

Not a bad idea at all.

[pttttt]

Marriage, as we understand it is a custom and a social institution, has evolved over millenia, along with accompanying customs on child raising, parental rights and duties, and property.

Heretofore, marriage of a man and a woman has been perhaps the most universally recognized and portable social convention (see e.g. http://www.dfat.gov.au/travel/marriage_os.html).

But this will pose an exception to that, as the Australian Government has in their law (the Hague Convention on Marriage is silent AFAIK on same-sex marriages).

And it sets a ludicrous precedent. What'll be next? Someone decides they want to marry their dog? Gimme a break.

[VOA]

Canada has now crossed the Tiber back into pagan lands

But note:
The Province of Alberta is fighting back, from what I hear in radio reports.
As I understand, the provincial government of Alberta has said they will do some sort
of "opt-out" of the gay-marriage situation.

As a US citizen, I don't know if this will actually work, but at least the
folks in Alberta putting up a fight.

[gcruse]

I was two-hundred miles from New York City when the terrorists struck the World Trade Center. I never thought I would live throught another event that would so affect the psyche of a nation

Equating the shock of homosexual marriage in Canada to the World Trade Center attacks in America is revolting.  Thousands of people died in New York, remember?  Pious outgassing unable to distinguish a difference between how other people wish to live their lives and  innocents being  blown to bits in the marketplace is Islamic to the core.  The Taliban are here, and they are no longer Arabic.

[saquin]

As a New Yorker, I'm incredibly insulted by the premise of this column. 3, 000 innocent men women and children incinerated = consenting adults who love each other being allowed to marry?
I don't think so. Attempting to equate them is disgusting.

Anway, I don't see what gets people so upset by the concept of gay marriage. They're consenting adults, they're not hurting anyone... why the moral outrage to the point that someone would even think of equating it with 9/11? Maybe I'm the minority here, but I believe a certain percentage of people are born destined to be homosexual. It's been that way through the ages. I don't see the point in denying death benefits, right of hospital visitation, etc. to the person they have chosen to spend their life with. It doesn't bother me in the least. I think there are much larger things to worry about in this world.

When I was growing up, in a nice Ozzie and Harriet suburban community, a gay man lived in the house next door, all through my childhood. He was a very nice neighbor and always kind to me (I'm female, in case anyone should jump to a wrong conclusion.) I always knew he was gay, so maybe knowing a gay person firsthand from the time I was very wrong has kept me from developing prejudices. I'm thankful for it.

[McGavin999]

Canada is going to split into two countries in the very near future. Nothing is going to be able to stop it now. The good people are going to merely gather in one section of the country and announce they've had it with the immoral, decadent section of the country that will not fight for what is right, allow gay marriage, and legalize dope.

[Calvin Locke]

Great line:

The answer lay in our beloved Maple Leaf, which now symbolizes Canada's
role as the red light district of the global village.

[Grig]

In Canada, there are large blocks of voters who don't inform themselves one tiny bit about any issue. They just line up and vote the way they always voted, the way their parents voted before them etc. etc.

This, and other things happening up here have tossed a bucket of cold water those voters and woken them up to the fact that not only are the traditional parites committed to destroying society as we know it, but that self rule in Canada is largly an illusion. I think that change is in the air.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Has it already become law that gay marriages are now recognized as legal in Canada?

[Salvation]

**Canada has now crossed the Tiber back into pagan lands.**

Subtle but powerful words.

Everyone ready for the underground church?

[Salvation]

His last sentence says volumes:

So begin lobbying your elected officials now for a constitutional ammendment to protect the common definition of marriage.

[SevenDaysInMay]

In the olds days, this would have been called "11", "66", "99", or "69", but with current obesity from pertetual over eating, "88".

Prostate pals can call their unions something, but "marriage" it is not.

I suggest "sodomage" for men, "lesbosage" for women, and "Lord only knowns" for the transexuals confusion.

[ezo4]

This is stupid - from a American

[Vote 4 Nixon]

It seems that there is a new socialist bomb shell coming out of Ottawa every week. It is becoming clear that Canada is moving closer to civil war. They need a revolution more than cuba!

[NYer]

From the Envoy Magazine blog ...

[Update: This blog entry has sparked a fierce debate over at FreeRepublic.  I want to thank the American Freepers who understand that no disrespect is intended towards the victims of 9-11, and who have taken up the keyboard in defense of myself and other Canadian conservatives, and more importantly the traditional understanding of marriage, while Canadian conservatives are trying to come to grips with the death of democracy at the hands of judicial fiat.  May God bless America as He weeps over what is taking place in Canada]