Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Educating Immigrants on Gay Rights

Today the Globe and Mail broke the story outlining the outrage that gay rights were not included in the updated citizenship brochure released several months ago that educates new arrivals about our history and culture. This allows immigrants to ease their transition into Canadian life. I don't rank "you're allowed to be gay" very high on my new Canadian need to know information priority list, though I do support gay marriage. The Globe article does not mention if the gay rights were included in the original brochure that the new one replaced.

We can't possibly list everything you can or cannot do in Canada, and to include every single law or right would be impractical. If a new immigrant is a repressed gay, it is not as though we will be depriving him of Canada's "gay experience". It will not take them very long to learn that they are allowed to be gay and that there exists many venues (private and public) where they can gather in self expression. Why is it imperative that this be included in the immigration pamphlet? If it was never in the brochure to begin with, why is its exclusion a story now? Because a bureaucrat wanted to include it and the Minister said no?

I have no objection to people being gay or gays getting married. It isn't exactly something that I want to encourage, but I have no pragmatic objection to allowing this particular venture of free will. By the way, does it say in the brochure that in our society you are only allowed to have one spouse, of any gender? I am decidedly against polygamy. Does it say "if you are coming here with 3 wives, you will have to choose one and set the other two free" in those 63 pages? If not, it should, and if it doesn't, I'm pissed off!

7 comments:

  1. I personally have no issues with gay or lesbian people. C'est la vie. I do have an issue with the Liberals, NDP, and the MSM. A few years back when the whole gay rights thing was at a full crescendo I responded to a blog piece by saying it would not be sufficient to accept these folks as they are; the unholy triumvirate mentioned above would not be happy until all Canadians embraced and glorified the gay lifestyle.
    Guess what? It has come to pass.

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  2. I don't understand why you are for gay marriage yet against polygamy. Polygamy can be a "venture of free will" too. After all, if they love one another, why can't they be allowed to marry? Hell, if a 50 year old man and a 16 year old boy love each other, why can't they be allowed to marry?

    Homosexuals in the past were against the whole religion-based concept and lifestyle of marriage until they saw political opportunities in promoting it. Gay marriage is just another way for the gay left to get back at the religious institutions and religious people of this country.

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  3. Have the pro-choicers come out demanding Morgentaler gets a paragraph in the citizens guide, on winning abortion on demand?

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  4. Good points Iceman. For a young guy you got it all nicely put together. Wish my young nephews and nieces were as full of common sense instead of the new age rubbish they parrot.

    MSN

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  5. YOU BIGOT!!! DON'T YOU KNOW THAT GAYS ARE TERRIBLY OPPRESSED IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!???

    THEY AREN'T ALLOWED TO VOTE!!!!
    (Oh, uh, wait....)

    THEY AREN'T ALLOWED TO FREELY SPEAK!!!
    (Um, yeaaaahh, jus' a sec....)

    THEY HAVE NO FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY!!!!
    (Uh, wait ... oops ...heh)

    BUT .... ANYWAY .... UH .... YOU'RE A HOMOPHOBE!!! SO THERE!!!!

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  6. Frankly I'm glad it did not get a mention in the brochure.
    Why should it when it has no bearing on your citizenship?
    If there is a statement in the doc that quotes the charter, then they don't have an argument.

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