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[Alias]

Reading some funny letters to the editor in my hometown paper online.
Lots of talk about how the "activist judges" are tearing down the "moral fiber" of this country. No explanation on exactly how legalized swinger clubs are harming the rest of us though. Kind of the same thing with gay marriage.

[Alias]

Reading some funny letters to the editor in my hometown paper online.
Lots of talk about how the "activist judges" are tearing down the "moral fiber" of this country. No explanation on exactly how legalized swinger clubs are harming the rest of us though. Kind of the same thing with gay marriage.

Some conservatives simple want the rest of society to be exactly like them.

[Octavius Hite]

What these "activist judges" people fail to remember is that it was "activict judges" who gave women the vote, aboriginals the vote, told Quebec that their language laws were discriminatory, decriminalized aboration etc etc etc etc etc.

Also this stupid, moronic term "activist judges" comes from the Bush Junta and is meant to discredit the very system of checks and balances meant to keep the executive and legislative branches in check. Their role is pivotal in ensuring that governments don't terrorize or oppress their own people. It is for this reason that we should respect and support these "activist judges".

[Hollywoodaction]

Besides, I doubt a few unattractive middle-aged Canadians having group sex will have much of an impact on mainstream culture.

[paperbag princess]

on the other hand: canada is very lenient toward drug users, people are rarely given jail time for drug use. it's producing, distributing and selling that get you in trouble. even then, they are really soft in comparison to the crazed-morality police involved in the "war on drugs" in the US.

the gov't has no business telling people what to do in the bedroom. this is a great ruling!

[Hollywoodaction]

[Moldy Rutabaga]

Not really sure what the central issue of this thread is.

I also feel that I'm pulled in two directions. I don't see the ruling on sexual practises as a threat to anyone. Again, it doesn't hurt anyone substantially, and no one is being forced to participate or approve. Not that many people are going to be joining swingers clubs anyway; it seems to be small potatoes.

What does trouble me, as I've mentioned before, is the "activist judges" angle. Parliament no longer seems to serve a real function in Canada, let alone the senate. The PM decides things, or activist judges decide things, and the voters have no real say, regardless of whether the innovation is helpful or not.

Much of this business of judicial 'interpretion', ironically, can be laid at the feet of Trudeau because of his repatriated constitution and charter of rights, which while being largely a good thing, was jammed down our throats without any vote or referendum. Trudeau also forced bilingualism and metrication on the country without anyone voting for it "because it's the right thing to do", and this mindset now seems to be the way things are done in Ottawa.

Many of us are here teaching in Korea because of Trudeau's economic incompetence and spitefulness towards Alberta and the USA, which Mulroney was too weak and compromised to stop. The result were the Chretien government's cutbacks, which caused our university tuitions to skyrocket. And we still praise the man simply because he looked good and had style. The same could be said of Mussolini.

Ken:>