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Nov. 5th, 2008 01:39 amThere's a very mixed feeling here.
I'm a Canadian. My government at its worst tries to hand over health services to companies that are best described as ghouls who thrive on the suffering of others. Not surprisingly, these efforts meet with little support from my fellow citizens.
However, in the US, there is an issue I can't walk away from. On the eve of electing the very first black president, they are also well on the way to making law in one of the most densely populated states that the marriage between a man and a woman is the only one that counts.
My ex-girlfriend, a woman that I will love until the day I die, has a loving, supportive, extraodinary partner who she wants to spend the next several years with. She loves this woman, and wants to be with her without restraint or restriction. She deserves it.
And they are losing. Many people seem gleeful that some narrow, brute, vicious idea of commitment must be kept for a specific configuration, otherwise, they somehow are lessened. To all of them, I feel nothing but the most unalloyed contempt and malice.
As John Stewart said, fuck you. You narrowminded, evil, vicious, pitiful little self-obsessed callous pieces of human refuse. You hate to make yourselves feel worthy, which is exactly why you are the parts of humanity that rightly deserve a violent purging.
Canada, conservatives, liberals, and dirty hippies alike in Ontario said as a whole 'it's up to you' and we haven't fallen yet. In fact, we've grown stronger for it.
Don't let hate masquerade as politics, or worse, play itself as a swing issue. There is right and wrong. You're all smart enough to know it. If you lose tonight, fight it. Fight every step those bastards put in your way, bought off by thithes of hate. Make them fight every inch, bleed them every dollar you can. Make them decide between supporting themselves and hate. Challenge them in every step. You deserve what you want.
She deserves it. Don't ever, ever give an inch.
I'm a Canadian. My government at its worst tries to hand over health services to companies that are best described as ghouls who thrive on the suffering of others. Not surprisingly, these efforts meet with little support from my fellow citizens.
However, in the US, there is an issue I can't walk away from. On the eve of electing the very first black president, they are also well on the way to making law in one of the most densely populated states that the marriage between a man and a woman is the only one that counts.
My ex-girlfriend, a woman that I will love until the day I die, has a loving, supportive, extraodinary partner who she wants to spend the next several years with. She loves this woman, and wants to be with her without restraint or restriction. She deserves it.
And they are losing. Many people seem gleeful that some narrow, brute, vicious idea of commitment must be kept for a specific configuration, otherwise, they somehow are lessened. To all of them, I feel nothing but the most unalloyed contempt and malice.
As John Stewart said, fuck you. You narrowminded, evil, vicious, pitiful little self-obsessed callous pieces of human refuse. You hate to make yourselves feel worthy, which is exactly why you are the parts of humanity that rightly deserve a violent purging.
Canada, conservatives, liberals, and dirty hippies alike in Ontario said as a whole 'it's up to you' and we haven't fallen yet. In fact, we've grown stronger for it.
Don't let hate masquerade as politics, or worse, play itself as a swing issue. There is right and wrong. You're all smart enough to know it. If you lose tonight, fight it. Fight every step those bastards put in your way, bought off by thithes of hate. Make them fight every inch, bleed them every dollar you can. Make them decide between supporting themselves and hate. Challenge them in every step. You deserve what you want.
She deserves it. Don't ever, ever give an inch.
