[gcruse]

I feel sorry for you. If your life is so disrupted by how other adults choose to live theirs, that you equate the shock you feel to the deaths of thousands, your need to control others is a pathology. You have my sympathies.

[Theosis]

If your life is so disrupted by how other adults choose to live theirs, that you equate the shock you feel to the deaths of thousands, your need to control others is a pathology. You have my sympathies.

This isn't about how others live their lives, but rather about a tiny minority circumventing the democratic process and forcing an entire nation to redefine what is probably the oldest and most universally recognized social convention in human history. I believe we call this pathology narcissism.

[decimon]

As I see it, marriage has two forms; religious union and right of particular contract.

Religious denominations should be left to condone what marriages they will.

Marriage is otherwise a contract that must be sanctioned by the state. Maybe the best solution for all is to get government out of the picture to allow for more private contract.

[ultima ratio]

This is not about how "others live their lives", it is about forcing a decadent morality onto the majority. Two completely irreconcilable value-schemes are clashing--and one is brutally imposing its will on the other. This will rend the nation politically and socially for generations. Your very attitude is very indicative of further conflicts coming. They are not going to disappear, they are going to intensify. On the one hand will be the indifferent like yourself, who are unbothered by the dictatorial means by which this came about, and on the other, will be those who bitterly resent the undemocratic way this calamity was imposed on the nation. I see dark days ahead for Canada.