Definition of marriage equals a man and a woman united together in the sacrament of holy matrimony.
Amen, Holly.
Up here our problem is the rabid secularism driven by microscopic special-interest groups waving the “Multiculturalism” banner who demand the government gag anyone thinking within a religious framework who might dare to enter the public square after they’ve paid their highest taxes anywhere.
In the debates I’ve posted as a podcast, you especially hear an “openly-gay” MP named Réal Menard throwing around the word “homophobic” as though it were some sort of medical term. Nobody but nobody asks for a defintion of this coined word, but everybody just handles it like it was hot plutonium–whether throwing it or evading it.
You also hear other MPs on both sides of the debate hastily retreating in the face of this “H” word as though it were something more substantial than a bullying tactic used to hamfistedly quash any further discussion that includes the notion of homosexuality. This procedural ad-hominem attack then segues into an implication that such a “homophobic” person employs no individual thought process and instead mindlessly follows some Church dictum in robotic lockstep. And we all know what Church they mean. The 800-lb gorrilla in the room of Canadian governance in general is the uncomfortable reality that 43.5% of Canadians identified themselves as Catholic in the 2001 Census.
It’s the reason Canadians’ freedom of speech is so skillfully suppressed that Canada will brook no discussion of permitting the degree of freedom of speech that has seen the rocketing success story that is terrestial Catholic radio in the U.S. Canada will permit no such freedom of speech nor access to the publicly-owned airwaves any member of such an enormous religious minority–a minority larger than all other religious groups combined.
The other problems are the general public’s (not just in Canada) dis-awareness of the difference between a “human right” and a “social value.” Former Prime Minister Paul Martin stood up at the UN a few years ago and beat his chest to play the world for chumps when he intoned “Canada will never legislate any human right.”
As he was leaving office he also passed a federal law sending the Canadian taxpayer the bill for cleaning up after his shipping company’s dumping in the Great Lakes, forever. But that’s just because he’s an opportunistic and shrewd businessman first and foremost. Oh, and “a strong Catholic” as he claimed on a radio phone-in show after Bishop Henry of Calgary castigated him in print for Martin’s “moral incoherence” evidenced by a Kerryesque support and defense of abortion “rights”.
Nobody is going to starve to death because the state won’t call their same-sex union a “marraige” and give them the same property and inheritance rights as married couples. But future generations will be impaired in ways we can hardly imagine by having been denied by law any right as a child to be raised by a mother and a father, at the whim of two adults acting out at the expense of children’s best interests.
And given the well-proven (and assiduously ignored or denied among “gay” supporters) statistical tendency for same-sex relationships to be promiscuous, imagine the tangle in the legal system. Imagine a person going through life through a dozen or more civil divorces. Imagine, as government-appointed highschool homosexual indoctrinators tell gymnasium crowd after gymnasium crowd of teenage boys that “25% of you are gay.” It’s telling that the first “gay marriage” in Canada ended in divorce within less than 10 months after the breathlessly romantic ceremony.
I’m afraid everyone is so busy watching American TV on government subsidized digital HD cable TV set-top boxes that they are quite unaware of reality in this country.
But that’s just my opinion of the oligarchically-imposed Culture of Death as a native-born, taxpaying Canadian in the silent majority, EH?
