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How did Canada get to this point, and how will it ever return to sanity?

The same way we're getting there. Bit by bit...one piece at a time. The gay activists (and every other culture war activist)start out with what seems to most people a reasonable proposition. Gays shouldn't be denied jobs, for instance. That becomes the prevailing ideal but soon morphs into gays should be given preferance. And on and on and on.

I'm 55 years old. At no point in my first 35 years would I ever have believed that this country would even consider legitimizing such a deviant, evil, perverted concept as same sex marriage! But here we are!

How did Canada get to this point, and how will it ever return to sanity?

Some years ago, Canada specifically outlawed the reading of scriptures that condemn homosexual behavior, even by pastors in the pulpit, and prosecuted at least one pastor. Eventually that was overturned by Canada's high court. So what's up with this most recent assault by the anti-Christian brownshirts? Hopefully, the earlier precedent will provide grounds for appeal.

These "human rights commissions" in one place or another, stuffed with aggrieved minorities, have tried to take the place of legislatures. The Canadian one hounded Mark Steyn for "hate speech" critical of Islamist terrorists (eventually, after making his life a misery, they lost and Steyn won). Such a commission in Philadelphia hounded a sandwich vendor in his elder years who had a sign asking customers to speak English, even though his parents had immigrated to the U.S. and had to learn English when they got here (after making his old age a misery, they lost and the cheesesteak vendor won).

First it was PC run amok; now, when they attack free speech and religious freedom, its fascism.

Canadian Pastor Fined after Speaking Against Homosexuality
Posted By CitizenLink Staff On July 15, 2010
Human-rights tribunal also orders him to stop sharing his Bible-based beliefs.
A Canadian human-rights tribunal has ordered a Christian pastor to renounce his faith and never again express moral opposition to homosexuality, WorldNetDaily reported.
The Alberta Human Rights Tribunal ordered the Rev. Stephen Boissoin to stop expressing his biblical perspective of homosexuality and to pay $7,000 in “damages for pain and suffering.”
The decision came after Boissoin wrote a letter to the editor of his local Red Deer, Alberta, newspaper in 2002 that included this statement: “Children as young as five and six years of age are being subjected to psychologically and physiologically damaging pro-homosexual literature and guidance in the public school system; all under the fraudulent guise of equal rights.”
Darren Lund, a professor at the University of Calgary, complained about the letter. “Dr. Darren Lund does not believe my views are politically correct,” Boissoin told Family News in Focus. “He believes they are immoral, and he believes I need to be re-educated.”
Dave Quist, executive director of the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, said the case has broad implications.
“(The commission is) being used and abused … making restrictions on people,” he said. “That should be a warning sign for not only in Canada, but across the U.S., as well.”