How strong and proud is our community: Please oh please, can we be a part of your club? Hunh? Pretty please?
Bill C-38, the same-sex marriage legislation, is through the House of Commons (158 votes to 133), and now it's off to the Senate, where poobahs have promised speedy passage.
Bla bla here.
A politician's self-congratulatory
giddiness here.
Meanwhile, the House is adjourned until Sept. 26. So much for everything else that needed to be done, like the bill protecting transgender folks from discrimination when seeking the basic necessities of shelter, for example.
LAST GASPS: Liberal Joe Comuzzi, the federal minister for northern Ontario economic development,
quit Cabinet and returned to the back benches, so as to avoid being forced to vote for same-sex marriage.
And "Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says his party
will revisit the same-sex marriage law if he forms the next government. His promise is one of many indications that the issue is unlikely to die even after Canada becomes the third country in the world to legalize same-sex unions. How Harper might handle the issue is unclear since almost every provincial and territorial government has made gay marriage legal."
POSTED WEDNESDAY: There's a pretty solid collection of links to Canadian marriage news stories
here.
And
a maudlin queer response to marriage that's truly embarrassing.