Comments on alfred lives here: Happy Holidays, Homophobes!

while i like the postcard and find it's a guts...

2009-12-22T18:32:32.058-07:00

while i like the postcard and find it's a gutsy move, i'm hardly surprised by the response. saying "there's a very tiny, tiny minority of bigots" is a mistake. they are a minority indeed, just as we are, but they feel they have the right to be outspoken, still believing us to be ourselves forever a silent minority, unwilling to come out... i grew up in those times when homosexuality was taboo, never spoken of, or ridiculed if it was ever mentionned. i've seen the community grow into a conscious entity, willing to fight for his survival. we got ridiculed, bashed for standing out, but we've learned to never back down, never empowering those bigots. the society i live in has become tolerant, not accepting really, only tolerant, as i won't be fooled. when push comes to shove, any radical political and/or religious shift would let the inner bigot come out in way more than we could suspect. if we lived in an accepting world, discussing homosexuality would be such a triviality, just like having blue eyes or red hair, an insignificant detail in one's life,
a non-issue. but truly, this remains a very sensitive issue, no matter where you stand about it.
season's greetings to everyone!!
i'm not targeting anyone specific,
just offering my best wishes to anyone who wants them.
:)~
HUGZ

WOW! I did not realise The Globe and Mail shut th...

2009-12-21T13:57:04.811-07:00

WOW! I did not realise The Globe and Mail shut the comments section down. I read the article on www.globeandmail.com and did review some of the comments, when they were still active. Good for Scott and Maxime (and their golder retriever, Simba). On a more positive note, there was a follow-up to the controversy in yesterday's The Vancouver Sun, Gay MP Scott Brison inunudated with support after Christmas card controversy.

not wishing to be shallow, but they look pretty ho...

2009-12-21T13:36:13.287-07:00

not wishing to be shallow, but they look pretty hot to me too... LOL...
and if they were from Arkansas they'd be brothers...cousins is West Virginia!

I agree that shutting down the comments might have...

2009-12-21T12:38:22.781-07:00

I agree that shutting down the comments might have been the best move. Some people just don't know how to be nice, or even to disagree respectfully. Why give jerks more of a forum to preach intolerance and bigotry? Let them make asses of themselves in their everyday lives, not on a news website.

I love Brison's comment.

2009-12-20T14:38:50.876-07:00

I love Brison's comment.

Way to go Brison! You know what... it's a to...

2009-12-20T13:09:21.305-07:00

Way to go Brison!

You know what... it's a toughy, but thinking about it, I actually think they did the right thing shutting down their comments section. If, for example, 300 bigots read negative comments about gay relationships (even though that might only represent 0.0000001 of the population), it just re-affirms their homophobia and makes them perpetuate it.... you know... the 'oh! it's not just me... bollocks'

EEk. sorry to rant.... and swear

For the record, I think Brison and his hubby look hot...oh yeh!