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The battle over same-sex marriage is partly about setting the standard used to determine a couple’s fitness to marry. Just the fact that there is such a thing as a fitness test shows that a legally recognized marriage is a privilege, not a right. There is no such thing as a fitness test to quality for a human right. If you attempt to create a fitness test for speech you have censorship, create a fitness test for the right to live and you have eugenics. With privileges, the opposite is true: a standard must exist and if you don’t meet...

What part of ‘no answer’ is it that the Liberals don’t understand? The Supreme Court’s ruling on the proposed same-sex marriage legislation was supposed to be their magic bullet against opponents of the bill but the Justices surprised everyone and declined to pull the trigger. The court only reaffirmed the position that it has stated in the past, that government can redefine marriage if it wants to, while refusing to say that government must redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. You would never know that listening to Justice Minister Irwin Cotler though. Having failed to get the Supreme Court to...