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Originally posted by RACooper
Well I'm sure that you are watching (or should be) the debate about Same-Sex Marriage here in Canada... was presented to Parliment; but as a minority government under hostile opposition from the right and church groups...
While the government may have under cut the primary opposition arguement by framing the law in civil rights terms, that do not violate the freedom of religon (ie. no religous group must preform a same-sex marriage if it violates their religous principles) there is still strong opposition from the right... which is losing them support for their tatics of targeting people by religion or ethnic gorup (nevermind the finacial support from the states).
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Did you see Harper's address to the Sikh community?
He claimed that same-sex marriage would threaten multiculturalism. The man is nuts. And quite frankly I feel he is the only threat to Canada.
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i still don't udnerstand why they had to put it in writing that religious institutions would not be compelled to perform same-sex marriages? Religious institutions are currently not compelled to perform heterosexual unions. They can and DO refuse to perform marriages for heterosexual couples all the time for any number of reasons. Why is that all of a sudden they feel the government would force them to perform same-sex marriages?
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