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Canada's Liberal Government introduced Bill C-38 to establish same sex marriage as law of the land. Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper issued a cogent defense of traditional marriage and asked the House Of Commons to block Bill C-38 for failing to uphold marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Its a time-tested value and the foundational institution of society. No civilized country has ever scrapped it - and the onus is upon those who do want to discard it in the name of transient and temporary interests as the Liberal Government seems wont to do.

Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

About a year ago there was another conservative (don't remember the name) that had an interesting idea, let the government totally scrap the term "Marriage" from its books and replace all marriages with civil unions, let the religions use the term marriage (then they can have their special club and the traditional term defined however they want) and everyone else can use the civil union term for "official" governement use (taxation and the such).

I always found it interesting that the folks that want to desperetly hang on to the marriage term and have civil unions for gay/lesbian couples always said that they (gays etc) should be happy with the concession and let well enough alone but never answered the question of if they would be happy with a civil union instead of a marriage themselves.

Get the government out of the business of marrying people and religion in general, they have no place there except for taxation reasons (currently you need a marriage license anyway from the gov't so this should represent minimal overhead) and it really shouldn't matter to them what the economic unit is called.

Martin promised to end the absolute monarchy that was presided over by King Cretan. At one day and age, MPs represented their constituents and voted their conscience. But of all parties, the Canadian Liberal party had become the most tyrannical party of them all. Those who don't toe party line are stripped of their cabinet position and made backbenchers.

Martin promised to end that, but I guess he feels foisting his will on Canada is bigger priority. While Harper, and the 2 other major parties have said they will not interfere in a free vote from their members, Martin has already told his members to vote his way or face the consequences. He obviously knows there are many catholics in his party, and some of them actually practice their faith. Given the right to vote freely there may be a chance the bill fails. Martin is determined to not allow that to happen and will sacrifice a free society for it.

Canada barely knows what a free society is. Via Kyoto, the government again is foisting its ideals upon free Canadians. Business is expected to comply with costly emission reductions based on faulty science.

I truly believe gay marriage is the slippery slope. Once that is allowed how can we deny the rights of polygamists or even those that want to marry their barn yard animals. The scariest aspect is gay marriage will lead us down the path of children raised by lesbians and homosexuals.

Here is a very well spoken and intelligent man and yet Canadians will only give him 26% of the vote. Yet they will give the Liberal party, the most wasteful and corrupt party in Canadian history 40% of the vote.

This government couldn't even answer the question on the day care debate. The Conservatives asked why aren't traditional families being encouraged in this nation - those that choose to have one person stay home? Why am I as a taxpayer paying the babysit someone else's children. This is typical socialism. Take from one segment of the middle class (the productive) and and give to another segment of the middle class (the non-productive).

Thanks SO MUCH for posting this! I too have been hoping that Stephen Harper started speaking up more -- especially as the Martin "government" is so tentative (they didn't even win the majority of the vote in the last Federal election)....kudos also for a full posting....