Today In The Gay

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• Today the Vatican released their new (and unsurprising) policy on allowing gay men to be priests. In short, no more flaming in the sachristy. Deep-seated homosexual tendencies, which the Vatican calls disordered, disqualify one. "Transitory tendencies" would be OK if you've been celibate for three years.
  
  The editor of the Catholic New Times estimates that 30-50% of priests in the Catholic Church are gay. And stated on CBC that 50% of Catholic churches are currently without a priest. Hmmm, good plan Benedict!
  
  
• Today the Canadian election started, and Stephen Harper, almost before the writ had left Martin's hand, was already talking about repealing equal marriage for same-sex couples. For pete's sake, is he stupid? I mean, seriously.

Comments

[bartok.livejournal.com]

Stephen Harper...was already talking about repealing equal marriage for same-sex couples

You want him to keep this up! WIth statements like that it will have middle-ground Canadians (who really don't care about the matter one way or another) not wanting to go near the Conservatives with a 100-metre pole!

[c9.livejournal.com]

Meh -- it just leaves us with more Liberal rule. Corruption is starting to bug me more. If only the NDP weren't so ignored, maybe.

[bartok.livejournal.com]

well, there's also the problem of the inherent divisions within the country. Like it or not, the Liberals really are the best party suited to lead a country of tree-hugging BCers/redneck prairie folk/uptight Ontarians/fanatic Quebecois/lazy-assed Maritimers/the other that is NF.

And regarding electoral reform, I'm not convinced it would work well for Canada, since it coule create a large devide than already present. The coalitions required can get messy and complicated, and could result in a government nobody like (take a look at what we ended up with down here for an example).

Also I think that the media has really overplayed the Gomery thing, why no furore over the 1 billion wasted on hand-gun registration?!

[c9.livejournal.com]

Oh god, the gun registry! Are you sure you're not a Tory?? :-)

Seriously though, that's the exact question constantly raised by the poor overtaxed gun owners. I want to slap my dad when he constantly says "I'm gonna buy a gun and not register it" when he freakin' registers his car every year.

[bartok.livejournal.com]

not so much the presence of the registry, but the fact that it went 800-million over budget or something?!

of course the other thing I may be finding is that Canada in general is a little over-regulated. I've often found that I tend to like left-leaning social reforms (drug/coupling reform for instance), but economically a little more centrist (deregulation of the health sector might not be the end of the world *hides in shelter*...)

[c9.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm finding myself fairly libertarian sometimes. I'm still figuring out my beliefs on health care, but certainly there are a lot of regulations that don't need to exist.