Go Andy Scott!

[c9]

Canadians for Equal Marriage, the newish lobby group for equal marriage rights in Canada, has started a new campaign which lists specific candidates to support or defeat in the upcoming federal election. There's only three people so far, but they are planning to add more MPs as they continue their research.

Andy Scott, Liberal MP in Fredericton, and (straight) victim of gay-related-issues bashing, is on the good list! Fun.

Why should you care?

• I'm gay, and getting married. leapfish and I have to travel to do it legally. Maybe you don't want to get married, but everybody should get to make the choice themselves, instead of having the government decide for you.
• Conservative groups like Focus on the Family are going to spend millions of dollars on this one issue, trying to prevent equality from gaining ground in Canada.

Fun links:

• Halifax Candidates' Equal Marriage Ratings
• Check your riding based on postal code

Comments

[scott8424.livejournal.com]

Unrelated comment...are you feeling any better?

[c9.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks for asking. Not at all! :-(

I have a doctor's appointment at 4pm. I intend to push hard for "stronger antibiotics and time off work." Or whatever he thinks is best, really. :)

ratonil delighted in telling me that 'nobody in Chile takes penicillin, we have much stronger drugs here,' which reminded me of hos much I like Health Canada and their obsession with my health. COuld be some scary drugs. :)

[scott8424.livejournal.com]

I fully suppport stronger antibiotics. =)

I was surprised to hear you were on penicillin; I didn't think that was even prescribed anymore. I'm sure it works for some things, but I've had throat ailments that didn't respond to certain antibiotics of the -cillin variety. Perhaps you are in that boat as well.

[c9.livejournal.com]

I've never been on it before, except perhaps once in childhood. And I think it's a different variety of penicillin too, the prescription says Pen-V. Dunno. Plus it's Canadian! (discovered by)

Ever since I started taking it, I've had little acne outbreaks, and a lot of sniffles. Maybe I'm allergic too. Bleah.

LJ isn't emailing me when you comment, so I apologize in advance if I miss one.

(or perhaps it's my email that's flaky. Aliant is on strike, so perhaps that's more likely...)

[scott8424.livejournal.com]

I think if you were allergic you would be reacting much worse. I discovered a drug allergy when my legs became covered in hives. It was a pleasant experience.

My e-mail comments are slow in coming, so maybe it's LJ. No strikes here that I'm aware of...

[c9.livejournal.com]

Yeah, more likely I'm just sick in multiple ways. *sigh* I'm really sick of being sick. It makes me cranky, whiney, and less witty.

[scott8424.livejournal.com]

Lenghty sicknesses suck; I was there last week and understand. Though I got some cough medicine that made me a bit loopy, and in my mind MORE witty. Or maybe just more crazy...