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In reply to the discussion: Starbucks Boycott Over Marriage Equality Spurs Tenfold Backlash [View all]iverglas
(38,549 posts)I know where you would have been.
Funny dynamics here, you see. Allow me to introduce myself.
I'm a Canadian who has supported LGBT rights all my rather long adult life. The political party I am a member of and have been a candidate for, and supported a gay candidate for leadership of, has consistently supported full rights for LGBT people (the politician in question succeeded in having Parliament amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to include sexual orientation as a prohibited ground of federal-jurisdiction private-sector discrimination), including marriage and anything else you can think of. In fact, in Canada, LGBT people are protected by the express guarantee of equal benefit and protection before and under the law, and if there is any discrimination going on here these days, and in the last decade or so -- in relation to marriage, employment, housing, insurance, pensions, benefits, or anything else -- I don't know anybody who's aware of it. And the only people I know who aren't happy about any of that are people I wouldn't cross the street to spit on. Hell, my almost 82-yr-old mother (whose grandson's mother is a married lesbian, although that isn't the reason) gives the other residents of her senior cits' building a gentle but pointed piece of her mind when they start in on same-sex marriage, and they shut up.
And I'm inordinately and of course totally unjustifiably proud of the fact that the 1929 decision of the Privy Council holding that Canada's constitution is a "living tree" (and holding that women were "persons" for the purpose of appointment to the Senate), the precedent always cited as the basis for equality-enhancing interpretations of our constitution including in the same-sex marriage reference to the Supreme Court of Canada, was written by my second cousin four times removed, John Sankey. I unfortunately didn't know that when I was the first lawyer for my city's first gay and lesbian rights organization, many many years ago ...
But I'm an enemy, you see.
That makes you a friend!