Actually, it was stimulated by a post on someone else's blog, congratulating the Canadians on their new contribution to civilization and wishing that the USA would do the same. I have been following events in Canada at increasingly close quarters and with increasing disbelief - the manipulation of Parliamentary procedure alone could probably have brought down a government in Britain - and am deeply unhappy that many LJers will probably want to congratulate the Liberal gangsters on their advanced ideas, without knowing or caring from what manure they have grown. Of course, most of them would not give a damn if homosexual marriage were introduced by Communist China or by Robert Mugabe (who is, however, a villain on the other side - a confirmed queerbasher, among his other odious traits), so long as they got what they wanted. Which is probably exactly Mr.Martin's calculation.