{"id":1208,"date":"2006-12-07T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2006-12-07T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T23:10:00","slug":"there-goes-the-neighbourhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"There Goes the Neighbourhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 175 to 122 vote, the House has voted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20061207.wsamesex07\/BNStory\/National\/home\">against <\/a>re-opening the debate on same sex marriage. Among the notables who opposed the motion:<\/p>\n<p>Peter MacKay<br \/>Lawrence Cannon (who no doubt will go into a 15 minute monologue on who exactly <em>is <\/em>a same sex couple if asked afterwards)<br \/>Jim Prentice<br \/>David Emerson<br \/>Josee Verner<br \/>John Baird<br \/>Michael Chong<br \/>Joe Comuzzi<\/p>\n<p>However, some people just can&#8217;t seem to get the idea of man on man monogamy out of their heads:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">But opponents of gay and lesbian marriage said on Wednesday that rejection of the motion would not end their bid to have the legislation overturned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh no, absolutely not,\u201d Charles McVety, president of the Canada Family Action Coalition, told the Globe when asked whether his group will abandon the fight if the motion was defeated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to continue to lobby members of Parliament, to raise up grassroots and to engage in the democratic process.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, expect McVety to begin lobbying Parliament to re-open the debate on re-opening the debate on same sex marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 175 to 122 vote, the House has voted against re-opening the debate on same sex marriage. Among the notables who opposed the motion: Peter MacKayLawrence Cannon (who no doubt will go into a 15 minute monologue on who exactly is a same sex couple if asked afterwards)Jim PrenticeDavid EmersonJosee VernerJohn BairdMichael ChongJoe Comuzzi However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}