Ugh ... Another One
ashley_rb said:
Well way to go Canada. First it was a court decision to allow gay marriage, dismantling the foundation of marriage between a man and woman. According to the courts, 2 men make for great parents to raise children: that is a dress wearing - makeup made - lip gossed guy who gets off on another guy with a lisp - 2 men who's sexual pervertion we all get to witness at the Gay Pride Parade - a leather thonged man riding on a float rubbing his crotch up against another man dressed with only a ball cup, a wink and a wee bit of blush. According to the courts, this makes for a great Canadian parent.
Today we have the court making another decision, Sikh children get to wear knifes to schools. So not only do Canadian children have no protection from dress yielding, thong rashed men, they now have to defend themselves from other children who have the legal right to arm themselves with knifes.
So Canadians stand up and be proud of your country. In Canada great parenting is now measured by the moral standards of the Gay Pride Parade and you get to witness a select group of armed children, who have the legal right to be armed in schools.
Oh Canada in deed!
I see. Where to begin?
First and foremost, welcome to
Canadian Content.
Now, to my point,
ashley_rb; I'm gay. But no, I don't wear dresses — believe it or not, make-up and dresses aren't mandatory in this organization I belong to — says so on the membership card. Since I see you as nothing more than a bigot, I have no intention of wasting my energy typing an in-depth response to you — hope you're not offended, but I think I'd make a damned fine parent, and I plan to be one, some day. Just so happens I have learned it's easier not to waste my time on people like you.
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Back to the Topic at Hand
I just finished watching a press conference held by the teen-in-question — and he makes some very good points. There has
never, in the history of Canada, been a report of violence using a
kirpan in any public school in Canada. Moreover, not every Sikh chooses to carry one of these ceremonial daggers; while I have several Sikh friends, few have been baptised as Sikhs, and none choose to wear a
kirpan on their person — nonetheless, it should be an option.
Besides, approximately one-third of the students in my class bring swiss army knives to school, or some such device — the teachers are aware of this, and they don't particularly care; and why should they? Any object can pose a potential risk, and we need to learn to trust each other to use such objects responsibly.
And when we get right down to it, the fact remains that Section 2(a) of the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees that citizens of Canada are to have the right to exercise their freedom of religion — I would argue that the delimiting clause, Section 1, would not apply in this case since it cannot be demonstrably proven that the
kirpan poses a danger to students (since there has never been an incident of violence in relation to one of the daggers in Canada).
