http://www.confabulous.ca/2009/04/american-homophobia-from-a-canadian-perspective/ Dancing at the revolution in a great pair of shoes Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:40:51 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.confabulous.ca/2009/04/american-homophobia-from-a-canadian-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-221 Erika Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:34:18 +0000 http://www.confabulous.ca/?p=960#comment-221 You are right, I have been living under an internet rock (because I had not seen this vidoe) and I was way too pissed to laugh. I don't get the whole "I will have no choice" part - are people afraid that they will be forced to marry someone of the same sex against their will? Nobody has a "choice" in who other people marry, so that can't be it. It's a strange fear. Then again, like Veronica, I have a really hard time understanding this stuff because it's so far outside what I believe. And about teaching children gay marriage is ok - well, I'm totally in favour of our schools teaching children not to hate and ridicule each other, but instead to be kind to each other, to respect other people and to welcome diversity - who would ever not be in favour of that? My hope is that soon those lessons take over and we are no longer subjected to these kinds of hate ads. You are right, I have been living under an internet rock (because I had not seen this vidoe) and I was way too pissed to laugh. I don’t get the whole “I will have no choice” part – are people afraid that they will be forced to marry someone of the same sex against their will? Nobody has a “choice” in who other people marry, so that can’t be it. It’s a strange fear. Then again, like Veronica, I have a really hard time understanding this stuff because it’s so far outside what I believe.
And about teaching children gay marriage is ok – well, I’m totally in favour of our schools teaching children not to hate and ridicule each other, but instead to be kind to each other, to respect other people and to welcome diversity – who would ever not be in favour of that? My hope is that soon those lessons take over and we are no longer subjected to these kinds of hate ads.

]]> http://www.confabulous.ca/2009/04/american-homophobia-from-a-canadian-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-218 Veronica Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:34:30 +0000 http://www.confabulous.ca/?p=960#comment-218 Yikes! The NOM ad is so terribly disturbing, frightening and enraging! I'm really glad you posted the parody video. It made me feel mildly better. I have a lot of difficulty understanding the arguments that are made by anti-gay marriage groups, but I guess that's mostly 'cause their arguments are based in bigotry and don't make sense to me. Yikes! The NOM ad is so terribly disturbing, frightening and enraging! I’m really glad you posted the parody video. It made me feel mildly better. I have a lot of difficulty understanding the arguments that are made by anti-gay marriage groups, but I guess that’s mostly ’cause their arguments are based in bigotry and don’t make sense to me.

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