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Not a surprise, but still satisfying

The Tories just held their long-awaited vote to "reopen" the same-sex marriage debate, and, as expected, it went down in flames. I know that they just held the vote to get the faithful worked into a frothing frenzy (what is it about the christopaths, anyway? The anointed heads of the free world can go on an orgy of barbarism and they'll hardly blink, but if Bill and Henry down the street want to put on the iron fetters of matrimony, it's like a 5-alarm 20-car clown explosion. And the so-called prohibition against homosexuality shows up, um, once (In a section of the bible that's chockablock full of various prohibitions that nobody ever pays the slightest attention to,) while you have trouble turning a page without tripping over a love thy neighbor or turn the other cheek (and the christopaths don't have the slightest problem ignoring that pesky requirement,)) but it's still quite satisfying to see the horrid proposal losing by 52 votes (175-123.)

No, no, of course this didn't happen in the United States. Unlike our neighbor to the north, the "if we kill all the gay people maybe I won't be attracted to them" crowd controls electoral politics (with the assistance of the Democratic Party, which prior to August of this year showed the moral fortitude of an overcooked noodle. Perhaps they'll develop a backbone now that they control one of the three branches of government?), so you're not likely to see much movement in the way of common human decency and equal rights in the near future.

So, yay! for Canada.

And *grumbles* for the United States.