Canada’s First Same Sex MP Christmas Card Collects Criminally Homophobic Comments

Liberal Member of Parliament Scott Brison, his husband Maxime St. Pierre, and the couple’s cute golden retriever Simba posed for a Christmas card sent to the constituents of his rural Nova Scotia riding. It was, according to a report in the Globe and Mail Wednesday, well received, with “no negative comments or raised eyebrows.” However, less than an hour after the article was posted online, the editors took the usual step of not only disabling the comments feature, but offering an explanation, stating that “comments have been closed due to an overwhelming number of hateful and homophobic remarks. We appreciate that readers want to discuss this issue, but we can’t allow our site to become a platform for intolerance.” So you know, before being closed, a great many of the comments championed Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill that proposes to cleanse the county of gays, arguing that Canada should follow suit, and blaming former Prime Minister Pierre Eliot Trudeau for the collapse of Canada’s traditional values.