It's two human rights triumphs for the price of one: gay marriage in the Canadian military!
Let's let that sink in.
Not only does Canada allow gays and lesbians to serve openly with honour and respect in its military (such as it is)...
Not only does Canada (in most of its provinces) allow gays and lesbians to marry...
Now the gays in the military are marrying.
Pretend I have a photograph of it right here. No...Here. Down a little. To the left. There. Now look at it. Take a good long look. Use your imagination, god damn it. Play along. Are you looking? Good. This is what freedom looks like. Suck it up.
Freedom is on the march!
Freedom, I said!
Perhaps you are confused. I know that, according to no less an authority than the President of the United States of America, freedom involves keeping your trap shut and waving the flag while we rough up nations full of dusky people. Believe it or not, freedom is not in fact synonymous with escalating violence and deception while the media defers to a power-mad elite dragging virtually every facet of the nation into a gigantic clusterfuck (to use the technical term). One of the many horrible things about the American President is the way he keeps ass-raping the language of idealism. Freedom, in fact, involves being free. Like those two Canadian soldiers: able to shape their own destinies without the scolding interference of bigots.
Freedom is on the march!
...Of course, there's always someone ready to piss on the parade.
Posted by aloysius at June 14, 2005 03:41 PM |