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Canada proves once again that it r0xx0rs. The House of Commons has adopted legislation that legalizes same-sex marriage. <3<3<3

But of course, not everyone is happy. Says Charles McVety, president of the Canada Christian College:

"I have a seven-year-old daughter. When she comes of age to be married, will we still have marriage as we know it?"

Shit no! Marriage is changing -- the same way it changed in the eighteenth/nineteenth centuries, when the rise of sentimentalism prompted people to marry for emotional reasons instead of financial or social benefit. That was a big change at the time -- that wasn't what marriage was 'supposed' to be. Change, you know, isn't always a bad thing.

On a random note: this morning at the bus stop downtown, the guy that I mentioned in my earlier entry came up and talked to me again. (Like I said, he didn't actually look or act threatening, so I wasn't really bothered by him.) The bus had just pulled up, and as I walked up to it I marked my place in my book with my thumb.

Him: "Still reading that book, huh?"
Me: "No, I finished that. I'm reading ..." *begins to raise book, then stops*

I should mention that my current reading is Jane Sexes It Up, a collection of essays on the ways sexuality is/should be treated, in feminism. In addition to the title, I was also a tad concerned about the cover of the book, which displays a stylized photograph of a topless woman on both the front and back. (The frontispiece of each section in the book reveals the entire photo to be of a topless woman wearing a strap-on. XD;;;)

So: couldn't say the title, couldn't show the cover, couldn't really say what the book was about ("sex and feminism, yup"). I ended up mumbling something about "women's studies," when another guy, who also regularly rides the bus and has talked to me, turned around and asked, "What's the book about?"

Me: "Women's studies!" *flees into bus*

Yeah, fun stuff. The book actually has some pretty good essays in it, though -- I should share some of the ideas they share. Perhaps when I'm not at work, though, so as not to display topless strap-on woman on the front desk.