Hot button topic ahead, approach with caution.

The Hutterites.
An interesting religious group that has taken up residence in the prairie provinces of good ol' Canada since approximately the 1900's.
They fled Eastern Europe due to the persecution of their religious beliefs.

Jacob Hutter, their leader, was himself burned at the stake in 1536, and they were driven from country to country trying to escape this brutal discrimination.
On the grounds that Jesus (one of their historical religious figures) commanded the love of one's enemies, they are also a pacifistic group, who refuse to participate in war as waged by state or country.

In Canada, they live quietly and participate very little, if at all, in politics.

Where is this little lesson in a small religious group going?

Well, let me tell you.

Recently, the Hutterite community has sent a letter to our Prime Minister, Paul Martin.
This is highly unusual on it's own merits, given the communities reticence to engage in any political activity.
What's even more unusual is the contents of aforementioned letter.

The Hutterites have banned together and garnered all their moral righteousness to proclaim that any allowance of same-sex marriages will bring down their god's wrath on Canada to destroy us as 'he' once did to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Now doesn't that just smack of hypocrisy.

To come to a country that safeguards their ability to live as they choose, only to call down another group which in no way directly affects them, is not only ludicrous, but an insult to the very things that Canada claims to stand for, and more, that they also claim to hold dear!

As a free thinking Canadian, this really pisses me off.

I'm all for free speech, but isn't sending out a letter that claims that same-sex marriage is going to see all of Canada burn in hell just another form of hate?

And why rally now??!
Why go to government with your complaints now?
Because it's important to take a stand against people who love each other?

Why not take a stand against homelessness in this country, or the state of our health care system or even the drugs that rip families apart and kill every single day?

And SURELY their god must be enraged about the hundreds of thousands of children dying of starvation in this world.
I mean, should that not evoke a certain response?
Doesn't THAT deserve a letter to government, or a flood to mark 'his' rage against this obvious injustice?

And what's this? No plagues of locusts to mark 'his' wrath at Bush's re-election?

But total annihilation of a country in old school retribution 'a la revelations' because some people want to enjoy their lives together as sanctioned by their government, is okay?

That god has a very odd sense of priority.
And 'his' people are themselves condoning persecution and hate against a group of people they find fault in.

How quickly they have forgotten.