You can call me naive if you want, however I was taught to give people a leg up. Give them a helping hand when they're down.
I will never vote for anyone, (political party aside, this is personal) who will use their own prejudice as a platform for hate. There are more races, religions, orientations than *Caucasian Heterosexual Christian*
Life is messy and loud, we need the services already in place, safe medical abortions, free speech, same sex marriage, freedom of religion.
Holding tightly onto the purse strings because someone is gay and doesn't fit with your world view or they're not *religious* makes me question whether a person should even run for office.
Yes the PM screwed up, yes he apologized, it was stupid, lets move on. Trudeau has done more for immigration than any PM I can remember.
I find the timing of this whole thing to be suspect.They had to root around in boxes in the attic to find the pictures, so they could create a *SCANDAL* This isn't reality TV, these are real people.
The fake outrage is what gets me. The same people bitching about *brown* people coming for their pension cheques are outraged at the affront to said same people.
I for one don't want to see Canada move backwards, these rights we enjoy now came at a great cost.
I watched my Uncle hide who he was, he had to. He could have been arrested when he was young. Do we want that again? Do you want the mall to be closed on Sunday? No booze sales on Sunday or election day? Having some of your friends stand in the hall while you piously recite the Lord's Prayer? Get arrested for being gay? Lose funding because your school isn't religious enough? Want words like retard and fag to be acceptable again? Die from cervical cancer because your Women's Health Center provides abortions? Not be able to end your suffering on your own terms?
We need to be vigilant, look south of our border if you're not sure.
Oh, and climate change is real. Leaving it out of debates is absolutely putting us on the precipice of that slippery slope.
