Why Nobody Gets It And Everyone Is An Idiot: A Series Of Indeterminate Length

There’s a lot of misinformation going on about the recent Globe & Mail piece on gay marriage in Canada. This is a really nice piece from a Canadian gay activist, who clears it up.

But I don’t think it’s helpful to have false—dare I say, manufactured—outrage over this issue. I totally get why people are generally outraged at this government, and I am too. So I don’t really fault people for jumping on this issue. But I think underneath it all you have one side in a legal case, together with media and opposition politicians, who benefit from exploiting a “Homophobia in the Harper government” meme. I think the issue is being spun into something it’s not, in order to make headlines and score political points. And I don’t think that helps anyone solve any real world problems.