Aug. 14th, 2004

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Good day yesterday. Busy, though. Didn't do much during the morning, but around lunchtime we got ambitious. Worked on the 4 Alls medieval diorama - the boys made knights out of plasticine - did some paper games, then went out.

I was really, really disturbed to read the other day that Toys'R'Us may leave the toy business )

On with my day. We're having people over for a BBQ tonight, so I guess I better start cleaning. Not that there's much to do - we've been out of the house a lot so it's stayed reasonably respectable.
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I've been thinking a lot about gay marriage north and south of the 49th parallel, after the court decision handed down in California yesterday.

It's funny how the two countries are so quickly drifting apart on this issue. California just annulled over 3000 marriages; states are lining up to put together constitutional amendments barring gay marriage; Bush is planning on doing the same on a federal level; 62% of the US population opposes gay marriage. Up here, the Yukon became the fourth jurisdiction to allow gay marriage (the other three are Ontario, BC, and Quebec); our gov is wishy-washily creeping towards a federal recognition of it, and 54% of our population supports it.

Why the difference? It puzzles me, because apart from eating poutine and having a higher chance of owning a snowblower, I really don't think we're all that different, culturally. And yet we may as well be on different planets on this issue.

I've also thought about how easy it is to get caught up in the cultural/intellectual/legal/moral debate about this issue. How we all tend to forget what's really at stake here: real people's lives and relationships. Their sense of belonging, to their community and to their country.

So I'm linking with permission to the lj of [livejournal.com profile] cassatt, whose marriage was annulled yesterday: the personal face of gay marriage.


And here's some news stories I came across today:

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