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[waterspyder]

So who is up for a fight?

I got what I consider to be hate mail, bulk style, which means all of my neighbours got it too. Basically it implicates queer individuals as being immoral and socially corrupt and corrupting.

Okay, yeah, I'd like my MP to vote yes for equal marriage, however I feel the larger issue is that I should never be intimidated and marginalized by materials distributed through Canada Post, a Crown Corporation. That is my government consenting to allow members of its population to be emotionally abused.

That is how I feel, angry and marginalized.

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[feli-valkyria.livejournal.com]

Hate mail? What is this? I'll watch out for it myself.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Basically it is a letter urging all Ottawa South families to vote no against the proposed same-sex marriage bill, however the content of the flyer, while outwardly just offensive with claims like voting yes will destroy the 6,000 year old tradition of Canadian marriage (do the math, how old is Canada...), and misrepresentative quotations "marriage is the union between one man and one woman" which quotes it as law, when really it was an overturned court ruling. However, when you read it closely, you find slights against the moral character of gays and lesbians.

If promoting a stereotype about a group of people is not propogating prejudice, I don't know what is.