Wednesday, January 26, 2005

A little less conversation, a little more action

Hey all you dudes and dudettes,

I know many of you have answered the call already, but I'm gonna put it out there again - those of you who haven't sent something out to your MP (emphasis on "your" 'cause I'm lazy and hate sorting through all those e-mails) need to go to this website right now. It only takes a second and it really does help. Seriously. Go. Come on. Why are you still reading this? Don't worry, I'll wait.

Thing is - legislation is probably going to be introduced any second now and the fundies (fundamentalists, not fun underwear) (although wouldn't that be entertaining?) are getting their freak on at an alarming intensity.

Now, I still hold true to my belief that Canada is progressive, not ass-backwards as these people like to think. But the problem is that they're the ones making the most noise! How can we compete with that?

By using our secret weapon - Democracy! See, in our political system, each person gets one vote. That's it. Just one. And it doesn't matter HOW LOUD YOU YELL - you're still only getting one vote, buster. Sending one e-mail or one letter or making one phone call completely neutralizes some fundy out there, whether or not he or she spent 14 hours painstakingly cutting out little "Adam and Steve" paper dolls to send to MPs and chuckling over his or her cleverness. And no, that hasn't happened yet. And don't even get me started on the whole "It rhymes, therefore it must be true" form of logical reasoning. I mean, it's a wonder Socrates never thought of that.

So contact your MP - and this especially goes for anybody hanging in a Conservative-held riding(check out the above website to find out who's your MP). This especially goes out to people in the Edmonton riding of Rahim Jaffer, since he has stated that if he got enough messages from his constituents, he would support equal marriage.

Let's show these fundies that they're not the boss of us!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yay for continuing the campaign against evil! Go equality and human rights! - Lp