Tory candidate advocates robot-human marriage
(Repost from Vesper, AO, FFD)
This guy's running for my Party, in a riding very near the place I call home :POriginally posted here
HALIFAX – A man who advocates polygamy and marriage with robots wants to be the Conservative MP for Dartmouth-Cole Harbour.
David Boyd, who has run unsuccessfully in provincial and municipal elections, will vie for the Tory nod at an April 3 nomination meeting. In a letter last August to The Daily News, Boyd said revisions to marriage laws are long overdue.
“We must allow for same-sex marriages, multiple-people marriages and android-human marriages,” he said.
Quizzed yesterday about his unusual views, Boyd said he’s hoping they might work in his favour.
“I think it could win me more votes,” he said.
“Most conservatives say that we should stay with the traditional form of marriage, but I’m a modern conservative and I feel that times have changed.”
Anything’s possible in the future, Boyd said in a telephone interview from the Copper Penny tavern in Clayton Park.
“Maybe down the road they will have androids, and I think that we should give them just as much rights as humans,” he said.
Boyd, 31, admits he’s a big fan of Star Trek’s blond Borg bombshell Seven of Nine.
“Data was my second favourite,” said the computer technician.
For the record, Boyd is married, but not to a robot.
“My wife and I have separated,” he said.
Boyd said he has no plans “in the near future” to marry an android.
“Maybe in 10 to 15 years, who knows?” he said.
Boyd’s candidacy was approved by the Conservative Party of Canada’s interim council, said Jim Cormier, chairman of the local Tory candidate selection committee.
“They’ve given the OK to Mr. Boyd,” Cormier said.
Last month, Conservative party bosses blocked the candidacy of a former Buchanan-era MLA who was attempting to make a comeback after an expense scandal ended his political career 20 years ago.
Malcolm MacKay, 60, said the federal party’s interim council rejected his candidacy after The Daily News ran a story that made reference to his improperly claiming $34,000 in expenses for out-of-town travel when he represented Sackville between 1981 and 1984.
No other Tories have declared yet in Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, but Cormier said Boyd will not be the only candidate vying for the party’s nomination.
“There will be a race,” he said. “Everything’s ready to go for another candidate, including the approval from Ottawa.”
Liberal party president Mike Savage will be the Grit candidate in the riding and United Church minister Susan MacAlpine-Gillis will run for the New Democratic Party.
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