Letter to Justice Minister

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Oooo, I'm in a snit tonight.

Dear Minister Cotler:

I read in the Toronto Star that you will be allowing civic officials the option of refusing to provide equal services to same-sex couples in the area of marriage, despite your claim that the government sees this as an equality and human rights issue. Can you please explain for me the difference between refusing to marry same-sex couples, and refusing to marry interracial couples? Why is one acceptable to your government and not the other?

I await your reply.

Sincerely
Cameron MacLeod

Comments

Re: My 2 cents - not perfect, not popular but my opinion nonetheless

[c9.livejournal.com]

Sure! And the Charter guarantees that religious officials will not have to do anything they don't want to. The Catholic church rejects women as priests, and won't marry people who have been divorced without an annulment. Those are both possible due to the same section in the Charter. Nothing will change.

Also, several churches bless same-sex unions, and currently are NOT allowed to due to the discriminatory law. The big churches conveniently forget that when they're talking to the press.

But the big difference is religious versus civil: the Mayor is paid by me, to provide equal services to the community. He doesn't get to reject people he doesn't like.

Re: My 2 cents - not perfect, not popular but my opinion nonetheless

[bcuzimpretty.livejournal.com]

lol, yeah i kind of just glossed over civic aspect because I wanted to discuss the religious one. :-P
I should have clarified that I was omitting civic officials in my rant. Your letter just inspired me to think about religious officials for some reason and I felt an irresistable need to express myself on that subject (which you didn't even mention).

Oopsie

[bcuzimpretty.livejournal.com]

That last part sounded a bit rude (the "which you didn't even mention" part). Sounds accusatory (didn't mean it like that - lol). I just meant that while you were discussing civic officials I was thinking about religious ones (for some strange reason - who knows why I think of the things I do).
Hope you and V are having a wonderful holiday season by the way!!!!
P.S. Your cats are adorable. I miss having a cat.

Re: Oopsie

[c9.livejournal.com]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh rachel hates meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

oh, ok

THings are good, thanks. I miss the cats too, with this week on the road. Can't wait to get home!