"Fasten your seatbelts"

It's only words

Looking behind the language of sanctimony

Miss ("I abhor cheap sentiment") Bette Davis -- and that incisive mental device known as a "Bullshit Detector" -- expose the atttiudes likely hiding behind the mask of platitude:

• Equality -- as sameness.
  Even as Canadian law and the Charter of Rights recognize that treating all of us as if we were exactly the same can make some of us less than equal.

• Dignity -- as My dignity! To hell with yours...
  Both "sides" in this so-called debate want the state to back their own beliefs. And to impose them on the rest of us. They may resort to religiosity -- but they lack true respect for freedom of conscience or religion.

• Choice -- as just two choices. Or no choice.
  Marriage mavens would make you "free" to choose marital status -- or no legal status. Or to be locked up with no choice in the "common-law" status of involuntary matrimony.