{"id":6741,"date":"2009-12-18T12:20:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T17:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6741"},"modified":"2009-12-18T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T17:20:47","slug":"scott-brisons-christmas-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/scott-brisons-christmas-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Brison\u2019s Christmas card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has caused a <a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/NovaScotia\/1158310.html\" target=\"_blank\">bit of a fuss<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/wp\/docs\/2009\/12\/Brison_Christmas_389201artw.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"600\" height=\"485\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/wp\/docs\/2009\/12\/Brison_Christmas_389201artw.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OTTAWA \u2014 It has all the hallmarks of a politician\u2019s glossy Christmas card.<\/p>\n<p>Pastoral setting? Check.<\/p>\n<p>Doe-eyed golden retriever? Check.<\/p>\n<p>Handsome couple dressed in smart casual? Check.<\/p>\n<p>Same-sex couple?<\/p>\n<p>That was too much for &#8220;a handful of bigots&#8221; who objected to Scott Brison\u2019s holiday greeting card depicting him and spouse Maxime St. Pierre, according to the Nova Scotia Liberal MP.<\/p>\n<p>Brison insists there was no political message behind the holiday greeting. &#8220;I\u2019m not the first politician to have a family picture on a Christmas card. . . . I\u2019m looking forward to the day when this is seen as no big deal.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can\u2019t help thinking that Brison is being rather disingenuous when he insists there was no political message in the greeting. His saying, \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the day when this is seen as no big deal\u201d<em> is<\/em> a political message &#8211; one which declares that same-sex marriages should be accepted as equivalent to heterosexual marriage. I am quite sure he received bigoted responses \u2013 something that could scarcely have surprised him \u2013 but it is possible to disagree with his advertising of a lifestyle which, up until recently would have been regarded as perverted, without being a bigot.<\/p>\n<p>And, considering Christians do not accept same-sex partnerships as true marriage, to use a Christian festival to deliver this political message was an act of considerable crassness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has caused a bit of a fuss: OTTAWA \u2014 It has all the hallmarks of a politician\u2019s glossy Christmas card. Pastoral setting? Check. Doe-eyed golden retriever? Check. Handsome couple dressed in smart casual? Check. Same-sex couple? That was too much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/scott-brisons-christmas-card\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,177],"tags":[2084,2167,1406],"class_list":["post-6741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-homosexuality","tag-christmas","tag-homosexuality","tag-scott-brison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}