Thursday, February 11, 2010

Sex Scandal, Toronto Style

Where marriage is irrelevant

Adam Giambrone announcing his entrance
into the mayoral race, with his "live-in partner"
Sarah McQuarrie by his side.


One of Toronto's mayoral candidates has left the race because of a "sex scandal."
This is how the CBC puts it:
Adam Giambrone, Toronto Transit Commission chair and one-time mayoral hopeful, recently confessed to several intimate relationships with women other than his live-in partner of several years. The admission preceded Giambrone's decision to drop out of the mayoral race.
Now, isn't this person living in sin anyway with his "live-in partner?" What difference does it make how many trysts he has had, and with whom?

It is no longer, "The wife who stands by her cheating husband" but, "The live-in partner who will make the best of the situation, despite the shock and
disappointment that she is not the only woman he is sleeping with, and hopes he will put a ring on it ASAP." Poor Sarah McQuarrie.

Of course, in a country where marriage is no longer a sacred, spiritual (and by that I mean Christian) union of man and woman, where gay marriage is legal, faithfulness can be measured with any kind of stick.

The examples of cheating politicians the CBC gives are of men with wives, not men with "live-in partners." This is the first that I've heard of this. Propriety à la Canadian liberal.