recceguy said:
They are not us, and we are not them.
We can have our own 'personal' opinions on what we think may be right or wrong. However, that's all it is, a personal opinion. Open to interpretation and bias, with no one being able to state categorically and without argument who is right or wrong. If either is.
It is not our place to judge, guide, rebuke or chastise.
Until we become some sort of collective North American Defence Force, and personally involved, with a single CoC, uniform and TO&E, how they conduct business is none of our's.
I cannot disagree with you more on this. It is wrong to discriminate against a class of citizens on the basis of an inherent trait. Full stop. You cannot, and will not, convince me otherwise. You are right, that yes, it is my personal opinion, and you cannot convince me that it is not my place, as a citizen living in a free country, to voice my opinion when I encounter injustice.
When other countries do things, we are well within our rights to judge those actions, offer guidance, and if need be, rebuke or chastise them. If enough of us decide to start speaking up, the Canadian government might even decide to start offering guidance, and or chastisement. If this happens in enough countries, it might even actually convince the government in question to effect change.
While I am not about to start saying so in my official capacity as an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, mainly because I do not have the power to set departmental policy in this manner, I am sure as heck doing to do so as a human being with a moral compass guided by something other than bigotry and revulsion.
But it is precisely because it is a personal, and moral opinion, that is IS our place to judge, guide, rebuke, and chastise.