SAME-SEX UNIONS BLOOM IN CANADA

While some of us sit back contemplating the changes in the world around us over the past several decades, we can't help but feel that despite the seemingly endless adherence to the so-called socially and politically correct ideals fabricated around us, there have been at least a few changes made for the better. People have began to question ideas that were once thought of as truths, note the numerous contradictions within close-minded propaganda, religions and extensions thereof, and furthermore made advancements in their ability and desire to think for themselves.

While the conservative and often old-fashioned thinkers, set in their ways cry out in shock and disbelief with regard to the astonishing behavior they're now seeing in the world around them, they're failing to realize a number of things as they stand beneath their safety net of political (in)correctness. Those socially defined taboos have always existed though through the darker ages have been practiced underground, the only difference is that now we're reaching an age where it's becoming not only alright but celebrated to be human and no longer having to suppress our nature or desires.

Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, fetishists, sado-masochists and all in between have existed since the day Adam and Eve first discovered they could derive pleasure from certain areas of the body. And while the suppressed and subdued were living in fear of their own shadows and mortality, free thinking minds invoked sexual liberation and discovered the joy of having an orgasm.

It was in 1967 when Justice Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau declared that "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." Prior to 1969 not only was it a criminal offence to have oral or anal sex, but it was also illegal for heterosexual couples to use any form of contraception. In that year homosexuality was decriminalized, abortion was legalized and divorce was made available nationally. As far as Canadian law was concerned, homophobia had been overthrown. But it wasn't until September of 2003 that Bill C-250 was passed and hate speech against persons on the basis of their sexual orientation became a criminal offense. Exceptions, however, were made in the law for hate speech which is part of religious speech.

The federal government submitted draft legislation to the Supreme Court of Canada in July of 2003, which would redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. The Court is

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