Xiphias - 2010-11-23
Smackdown starts around 4:00
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Xiphias - 2010-11-23 You can't tell but she responds by ending the interview :D
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Xiphias - 2010-11-24 Turns out they knew he'd say it:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/11/23/in-defens e-of-cnn
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dancingshadow - 2010-11-23
5 and fave before watching... I love Dan Savage - his column and podcast continue to make me a better person.
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dancingshadow - 2010-11-23 "We've come so far... gay marriage went to the supreme court"...
meanwhile in Canada with hardly a raised voice it simply becomes federal law.
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Meerkat - 2010-11-23 There were plenty of raised voices. Mostly bitter, vindictive old fuckwads. And the pope.
Once it became law and the world didn't come to an end and people didn't start divorcing their wives because gay people could get married, then it stopped being a big deal.
If the conservatives tried to repeal it they would be cutting their own throats and they knew it, so all the noise they made pre-election about repealing it kind of faded into "yeah well we could have done that but uh oh I think my cake is ready..."
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Meerkat - 2010-11-23 Also to clarify: the provinces began allowing same sex marriages because the gay people kept taking them to court and winning.
Either the provinces could allow same sex marriages or they could keep losing law suits, or they could invoke the notwithstanding clause to allow discrimination against gays (which is against our constitution).
So most provinces simply chose to allow same sex marriages.
In an unsurprising Dick Move, Alberta tried to invoke the notwithstanding clause and were slapped down by the supreme court of Canada because marriage is not a provincial matter. Marriage is a federal matter.
The federal government read the writing on the wall and made same sex marriages the law of the land.
So no, it wasn't a matter of it simply becoming federal law.
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Meerkat - 2010-11-23
I imagine right at the end she says "That's so gay."
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bias - 2010-11-23
I love dan savage as much as the next person, but is censorship really the way forward here?
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FeeFiFoFoTheFifeFifeBrown - 2010-11-24 Not inviting bigots onto tv talk shows is not censorship by any sane definition of the term.
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Xiphias - 2010-11-24 Is it really censorship for a private corporation to choose not to empower hate groups?
You will note they did not bring the KKK to discuss Rand Paul's statements about the civil rights bill. Is that censorship?
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CornOnTheCabre - 2010-11-24 pretending that an unsavory perspective doesn't exist isn't disempowerment. it's just bias.
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memedumpster - 2010-11-23
Obama's case of the not-gays, five stars.
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