i can't help it; Trudeau was my favourite PM -- elegance, wit, ego, able to take the piss like the best of them...

And now the bless'd canadian gov't has repealed a bit of one of his famous rulings

Section 13 and Section 54 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (link to full text) are being repealed.

So bless the canadian gov't and MP Brian Storseth

I just heard it on the news. Syria might be using torture in its prisons - which hold ten thousand prisoners. (US prisons hold a more reasonable 2.4 million).

Now, we will no doubt hear that NATO must intervene for humanitarian reasons, just as it did in Libya. The world cannot allow torture by foreigners. Stephen Harper will rally us to the cause.

You remember Stephen. He's the one who allowed the US to "render" at least to Canadians to Syria where they could be tortured by the CIA.

I am placing this in this forum because,imo, it is another step in the journey for our GLTBQ brothers and sisters.

It is reported that the repeal of this bill will be on the President's desk next week for signing.

It is a long road - but it is step by step.

Do you want to comment?

Last evening I returned from a week-long visit with our partners in the Philippines, a nation of 7,100 islands—7,101 at low tide. United Nations Human Rights Day, December 10, is already dawning there. 

This is inspired by SG's fine thread "Relating". Go check it out. It has spawned various sub-threads.

And it was inspired by one of boltupright's responses. This one:

Introduced by the Revd. Cheri DiNovo (NDP - Parkdale-High Park), this private member's bill would amend the Ontario Human Rights Code to protect Ontarians from discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

What is the most scary part of this is the admitted over riding protection of the Church over and above that of "the welfare of children and justice for victims".

Why does a "Christian" institution act diametrically opposite to what it preaches and what Jesus preached?  What does this tell us about its true nature?

Congratulations to Washington State, USA, for joining with the Great Work that is the World:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Referendum_71_(2009)

Most of the time, I am finding that these advancements now happen quietly.  They are SO mainstream.

There are always ways around the fear-based minority.  Perhaps that is one of the Great Advancements of our age...

Just a Self-writing poem,

Inannawhimsey

 I have been rerading the other threads regarding Israel and the resolution being debated at General Council.