Congratulations

Canadian Federal Conservative MP Scott Brison is getting married this weekend. I don't know him or his intended. He's not even the MP for my riding. So why does his upcoming wedding make the news? Because he's gay and it's a same sex marriage, the first one for a Federal politician. The Federal government squeezed through the legislation a couple of years ago to allow same sex marriages... oh sorry, we're supposed to call it "unions" (though i can't see the difference, myself. two people, legally bound together hopefully till death do they part. Civil union, wedding, marriage... it's all the same really and it's just semantics over a traditional definition. Even the media calls it 'marriage' But i digress...) Anyway, the letters to the editor have already started. Slagging off the newspaper for making it front page news. Last New Year's, a prominent musician, Ashley McIsaac, was shown giving his new same sex spouse a little peck on the lips. They got married New Year's Eve. The newspaper got quite a lot of extremely negative reaction for that one too. Surprisingly, really. You really don't hear too much about homophobia as a rule. I guess people really do keep that to themselves until something like this. That really brings them out from under though. Sad. All people really want to do is be able to love each other and not have to hide it away. Homosexuality has been around as long as people have. Much longer than the Christian Bible. Brison isn't the first Federal politician to come out, Sven Robinson was, I think, but Brison was the first Cabinet minister. Other politicians at the provincial and local levels across Canada have very likely got married already but Scott is a high profile Canadian and more power to him!

So anyway, Congratulations Scott and Maxime!