Just what is a minority?

Big issue on the news up here in Canada is the bill to legalize gay and lesbian marriage. The proponents of the issue are saying that the right is entrenched in our charter based upon the rights of minorities.

Well, I am going to get flamed for this one. Just what is a minority! In my opinion minorities are born as such. The mexican population in America got to be a minority by birth. If your parents were mexican in America it was a pretty good chance you would also be a minority. Same here in Canada with the aboriginal folk. Until the arrival of the white man they were the majority. Population balance eventually made them the minority as more white men (and women) arrived on the scene. Now, if you are born aboriginal circumstances of birth make you so. There is no bloody way an aboriginal group is going to let me call myself a native Canadian without proof of who my parents are/were!.

So, if they were born gay or lesbian they would indeed be a minority. My brief high school study of biology and sexuality tells me that this is impossible. A same sex couple cannot possibly reproduce! So cut out the minority crap, they are a social group at best. There is nothing in the charter of rights entrenching rights to the Kiwanis club (an acknowledged social group) so what is their point?

I see no reason why they cannot be given rights to benefits. What I am complaining about is the fact they want to change common accepted religious and social definitions of marriage. I am being very careful not to call them a perversion, as the bible would quite frankly call them. You might gather which side of the fence I am sittiing on for this one...



TW