{"id":257,"date":"2005-02-17T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=257"},"modified":"2005-02-17T03:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T08:23:00","slug":"257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Drinking Game<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul Wells speculated about Paul Martin’s speech on Same Sex Marriage here<\/a>. The gist of Wells’ question:<\/p>\n

The question at hand isn’t “How do you like that Charter, eh?” It’s: “Is it right and proper that Parliament endorse equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians?” The elementary test for a prime minister who believe the answer is “Yes” is that he say the words.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, I read through Martin’s speech<\/a>. Here’s a fun drinking game: Every time Martin explicitly says that it’s the right thing for gays and lesbians to marry, take a drink. The fun thing about this game is that you can still drive home afterwards and operate heavy machinery.<\/p>\n

Now, the more dangerous game would be the one where you take a shot every time Martin mentions “minority rights” or the “charter”. I’d make sure you’re drinking some watered down American beer for this one because I counted 29 references to these two topics. 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drinking Game Paul Wells speculated about Paul Martin’s speech on Same Sex Marriage here. The gist of Wells’ question: The question at hand isn’t “How do you like that Charter, eh?” It’s: “Is it right and proper that Parliament endorse equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians?” The elementary test for a prime minister who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}