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Jun. 29th, 2005 07:39 amWell *i* don't, because the new law of the land doesn't apply to me personally. Canada legalizes same sex marriage! Only the third country in the world to do so, the others being Belgium and the Netherlands, and it's been a real political football. The biggest contention seems to be the term "marriage" which traditionalists still insist is one man and one woman for the procreation of children. So does that mean that childless couples' marriages are invalid? What about couples that marry later in life? Two men or women that love each other and have a strong stable relationship shouldn't call it a marriage when some people are living in the hell of domestic abuse or living with someone with addictions and that *is* marriage? Anyway, the law has changed and i for one support it. If we're going to break the tradition, why not break the traditional definition as well? Now, the law also states that religious institutions don't have to sanctify marriages if they don't want to so not every church is going to see same sex couples walking down the aisle. But you can get married in public spaces and at courthouses and city halls and it's legally binding and recognized across the country. Yay for Canada :)
Elsewhere in the news, a couple that held the police at bay in an armed standoff last year when they tried to take their baby away, were convicted of various child abduction and arms charges and sentenced yesterday. It's a long story. I still don't know why the police decided that 12:30 at night was a good time to barge in and try to take the child off them when their doctor had no reason to suspect the child was being mistreated. But Social Services determined they had to take the baby and the couple has a past history of instability. Well firing off a rifle in the air over the police sure didn't help their case lol anyway they've lost custody of the baby permanently now and are in jail. The mother is having a hunger strike but is apparently consuming supplement drinks and V8 (a vegetable juice). So *how* is that a hunger strike? My father lived on those supplement drinks for a month in the hospital! THey both come across as nutters but some feel that Social Services jumped the gun on this case but it's wagons circled around so nobody's getting any real explanation there.
Someone gave birth to a 13 pound 12 ounce baby in Milwaukee the other day. By Caesarian section. 3 WEEKS EARLY! Cripes! That child would have walked out if it had gone full term!
Elsewhere in the news, a couple that held the police at bay in an armed standoff last year when they tried to take their baby away, were convicted of various child abduction and arms charges and sentenced yesterday. It's a long story. I still don't know why the police decided that 12:30 at night was a good time to barge in and try to take the child off them when their doctor had no reason to suspect the child was being mistreated. But Social Services determined they had to take the baby and the couple has a past history of instability. Well firing off a rifle in the air over the police sure didn't help their case lol anyway they've lost custody of the baby permanently now and are in jail. The mother is having a hunger strike but is apparently consuming supplement drinks and V8 (a vegetable juice). So *how* is that a hunger strike? My father lived on those supplement drinks for a month in the hospital! THey both come across as nutters but some feel that Social Services jumped the gun on this case but it's wagons circled around so nobody's getting any real explanation there.
Someone gave birth to a 13 pound 12 ounce baby in Milwaukee the other day. By Caesarian section. 3 WEEKS EARLY! Cripes! That child would have walked out if it had gone full term!
