Friday, January 06, 2006

The Slippery Slope Slips again and again

Just as Europe is pushing the envelope by using the laws that first let gays get marital rights now giving those rights to poly couples Canada is breaking new ground in the fight to prove the slippery slope is indeed correct. A man in Vancouver B.C claims that being into BDSM is a Sexual Orientation.

here is the skinny

The Tribunal’s Lindsay M. Lyster wrote an 18 page preliminary decision saying that the complaint can go forward. She said that while she did not completely understand the “precise nature of Mr. Hayes' lifestyle, practices and preferences,” they ought to be investigated as to whether they fall under the definition of sexual orientation, and therefore of the protection of human rights legislation


What I would have liked in this article was seeing -how- this comes up in a discriminatory manner.

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