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Closeted gay community of Alberta still avoiding altar
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| July 22, 2005
| Wyatt Buchanan
Posted on 07/22/2005 1:09:04 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Calgary, as seen from about 20 miles south, is closer culturally to U.S. red states than to cities like Vancouver and Toronto. Chronicle photo by Kim Komenich
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Here, the most popular event of the year is not Gay Pride, but the Gay Rodeo, where serious cowboys ride bulls and serious drag queens wrestle steers.Oh my good golly! Now THERE'S a mental picture.
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:12:54 PM PDT
by
exnavychick
(There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
It's because their relationships are based on dysfunctional sex practices, and they require multiple partners to satisfy their unnatural lusts. Their strange unions have nothing to do with love or a life time commitment like a real heterosexual marriage.
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:15:53 PM PDT
by
concerned about politics
("A people without a heritage are easily persuaded (deceived)" - Karl Marx)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
"It's very much an oil-driven town, very redneck and very conservative." Calgary is THE best city in all of North America, in my humble opinion. And yet most of Alberta is so "redneck and conservative" that it makes Calgary look like a den of Communist homosexuals in comparison.
Alberta Forever!
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:16:33 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.)
To: Alberta's Child
So why doesn't the province secede from the sewer that is modern Canada?
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:21:19 PM PDT
by
madprof98
To: exnavychick
serious drag queens wrestle steers.There was a thread a while back about a homo who died from having sex with a horse. He died from internal bleeding.
There's something seriously wrong with those people. Next, they'll be demanding homobeastiality rights and marriage! Count on it!
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:22:51 PM PDT
by
concerned about politics
("A people without a heritage are easily persuaded (deceived)" - Karl Marx)
To: concerned about politics
There was a thread a while back about a homo who died from having sex with a horse. He died from internal bleeding.Oh, BARF! I'm glad I missed that particular thread. *shudder*
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:24:35 PM PDT
by
exnavychick
(There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:24:57 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
This is not a shock. I seem to recall reading a recent article somewhere that stated that the "marriage" rate for homosexuals in one of the European countries where it has been legal for a while was far far below heterosexual married couples.
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:26:22 PM PDT
by
BaBaStooey
(Ethiopia: The New Happiest Place on Earth.)
To: exnavychick
To: Cincinatus' Wife
That's not nearly as bad as the mental image of a drag queen wrestling a steer.
Brings to mind rodeo clowns, though, so maybe not so bad. :)
LOL
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:29:21 PM PDT
by
exnavychick
(There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
To: Alberta's Child
To: Cincinatus' Wife
The one on the right looks a little like Garth Brooks.
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:31:23 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
To: Tax-chick
Garth Brooks has a bigger hat.
To: Cincinatus' Wife
It might just be the angle.
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:42:43 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
To: Tax-chick
To: Cincinatus' Wife
You could transplant here from Dallas and there's no difference, other than the accent and the weather," He's obviously never been to the Oak Lawn section of Dallas.
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:52:05 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: madprof98
So why doesn't the province secede from the sewer that is modern Canada? There is a stronger secessionist sentiment in Alberta than in Quebec, but you don't hear about it very much because Alberta is so far west and doesn't get a lot of media attention.
Ironically, the North American Free Trade Agreement has done more to keep Alberta in Canada than anything else. This is because NAFTA specifically prevents the Canadian government in Ottawa from implementing the kind of excessive control of the Alberta oil and gas markets that devastated the province back in the 1980s under Trudeau's National Energy Plan.
The secessionist movement in Alberta will probably get stronger over time, but the reality is that Canada is such a large and sparsely-populated country that the Federal government in Ottawa isn't even capable of enforcing most of the laws it passes (hence the large-scale violation of the mandatory gun registry laws that goes on in Canada's rural areas).
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posted on
07/22/2005 1:57:01 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.)
To: madprof98
I grew up in Ottawa, but have lived in the west since 1973 (Calgary since '86).
I'd love Alberta to secede, especially to become the 51st State. If I knew of a credible separatist movement I'd join in a minute.
Canada is lost.
Cheers
Jim
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posted on
07/22/2005 3:24:28 PM PDT
by
gymbeau
(Free Alberta! (Limited time special).)
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