Well homos, homo-friendlies...and homo-challenged...it's official...Canada has tied the knot with the fags, and the motion to bring back the great debate on whether or not the sodomites can marry in this fine, maple syrup drenched land has been kicked out of parliament and placed in a very discreet corner of the dusty closet - in place of the rainbow Canadian Flag that USED to be there.
Stored, for safe-keeping...but put to rest, regardless.
I was against this whole big "bring back the

debate for a free vote" thing, writing letters to the paper, like I was some kind of pseudo-activist for the last year...but now, when I actually calm the fuck down and really THINK about things...it was the best thing that could have ever happened.
Ever since 2003 - all you heard about from right wing, conservatives or other assorted trailmix of bible thumping bigots - was "we need a free vote...we need a fuckin' free vote...all we want is our fucking free vote."
Okay - in the grand ole words of Barbara Eden (as Jeanie): "Wish granted, MASTER!"
(insert blingy-boinkity sound here)
You all got your fuckin' free vote that was so damn important - and you still got kicked in the ass.
So all they succeeded in doing - was loading up the rest of the world with amo to be used against them if they so much as make a PEEP about gay marriage in the future.
Any more complaints about the downfall of society and how it "just isn't right" - gay people can NOW say: "Well....you had your free vote, and ya done fucked that up, dincha??!?"
If it wasn't set in stone before - your precious FREE VOTE just did it...so thank you, assholes.
Much appreciated.
For real - if any gay people wanna throw in a little "Neener-neener-neeeeener-ner..." that's cool too...well fuckin' earned, I'd say.
Someone I came into contact with today made a statement and I chose not to argue it at the time, because frankly - i'm sick of this argument...and I am sick of talking in circles....but I will address it in this blog.
She said: "Well...I believe god wants a man and a woman to be together because it's all about pro-creation."
Yeah.
That's what marriage is about.
While kids rock - and anyone who is living happily as a family SHOULD be looked at as role models - I think this is getting out of hand.
A) June Cleaver never existed.
B) Families with functioning guardians and happy, healthy kids SHOULD be a role model to the rest of us cattle..but not just because they are heterosexual.
ANY family dynamic - which is working (as best as a family dynamic can work) - is fantastic.
Dad and Dad, Mom and Mom, Great Aunt Tilda, Papa and the Kind Stepmother....whatever man...
Should people who are sterile not be ALLOWED to marry?
Should there be a rule - once you are married - if you are not procreating on a regular fucking basis, birthing LITTERS of kids whether or not you can afford them - your marriage is disolved cuz it's not what GOD would have wanted?!?!
No - this excuse is the same bullshit homophobia you hear from the "god hates fags" people...it's just watered down so it's easier to swallow...
Talk about gender roles and women being complacent, and obeying their men...stay-at-home-moms...
blah blah blah.
The reason I chose not to argue this bullcrap is because you can't.
She believes in her heart - deep down - it's a sin.
I find this not worth arguing.
To quote the WONDERFUL Six Feet Under - it's like she is calling me purple.
Who gives a fuck!??!
If someone called you purple...there would be no need to argue cuz - fuck - who gives a shit if someone thinks yer purple??
Okay. No prob. I'm not. But if you wanna say so - it's not going to hurt me.
So fuck - I'm tinder. I'm dryer lint for the great fires of someone's hell.
I'm fucking purple.
When it comes to opinion....who am I to judge? I mean, sure, I'll conjure up my OWN opinions about that person based on the stupidity they feed me...just as I'm sure someone else reading this is doing the same about me right now.
Big deal.
End of the day - who gives a shit???
Personally - I'll never even GET married.
I'm ALREADY married.
Same person for 7 years - hopefully an infinity more.
That's all that matters at the end of the day.
A marriage license makes my relationship no more valid than it already is.
It's the 7 years I've spent with him that makes it what it is - and it's the reasons WHY we chose to stick together for 7 years that make it special.
No big brothers saying "Okay...it's okay now...you have our permission to be in love" changes anything.
While marriage MAY have been about pro-creating at one time (or it MAY have been about women being the PROPERTY of their fathers - and their dad "GIVING AWAY" their little girl to her NEW master) - that definition has LONG since changed.
Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire!?!?
Marriage - as an institution, is temporary.
Sure it works for some.
But set in stone...marriage is not.
I'm not even 30 yet - and I've seen 3 of my CLOSE FRIENDS through their marriages...and their divorces.
A fancy day with a white "i'm still a virgin, really" dress and a big cake does not mean happiness.
Perhaps I'll have a "wedding" 25 years down the road...when we have even a quarter century of happiness to back us up.
Until then...I'm living for the moment, with Life Partner, our kitty Pluto and our little fishie - so seriously...who the fuck cares what anyone else says?
Congrats to anyone who has found a way to build happiness for themselves...that's all we can do right?
always a bridesmade...never fucking EVER the bride!
dan