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Historically, Americans have been pleased to have Canada as our
northern neighbor. The border between the United States and Canada is
often described as one of the world's longest and most peaceful, and
visiting Americans find most of Canada pretty much like home--with
just enough quaint differences to make a visit interesting.

Still is. I trust the Canadians to choose their own way.

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tim gueguen 101867

Why describe marriage in the law at all?

9/30/2003, around 03:30:48 PM, JaBrIoL wrote:

istorically, Americans have been pleased to have Canada as our
northern neighbor. The border between the United States and Canada is
often described as one of the world's longest and most peaceful, and
visiting Americans find most of Canada pretty much like home--with
just enough quaint differences to make a visit interesting. All that
is about to change, and some Americans are about ready to dig a moral
moat along the border. Our basically peaceful northern neighbor has
experienced a huge personality change, and not for the better. Liberal
Canada is turning itself into radical Sweden. The Canadian House of
Commons defeated a motion defining marriage "as the union of one man
and one woman to the exclusion of all others."

Why describe marriage in the law at all?

and telling the truth is about to
become a crime.

What is the truth?

istorically, Americans have been pleased to have Canada as our

northern neighbor

Jabriol@excite.com (JaBrIoL) wrote in
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istorically, Americans have been pleased to have Canada as our
northern neighbor. The border between the United States and
Canada is often described as one of the world's longest and most
peaceful, and visiting Americans find most of Canada pretty much
like home--with just enough quaint differences to make a visit
interesting. All that is about to change, and some Americans are
about ready to dig a moral moat along the border. Our basically
peaceful northern neighbor has experienced a huge personality
change, and not for the better. Liberal Canada is turning itself
into radical Sweden. The Canadian House of Commons defeated a
motion defining marriage "as the union of one man and one woman
to the exclusion of all others." The margin of victory was
small, but the bill failed just the same, and the media quickly
claimed the vote as an endorsement of homosexual marriage. [see
The Washington Post] A provincial appeals court in Ontario
legalized gay marriage this past summer, ruling that denying
homosexual couples the right to marry violated "the dignity of
same-sex relationships." Hundreds of homosexual couples quickly
took advantage of the ruling, and Prime Minister Jean Chretien
chose not to appeal the court's ruling. The bill proposed by the
Canadian Alliance party was the only hope of reversing the
decision and prohibiting gay marriage. The bill's demise means
that homosexual marriage will almost surely be legalized
throughout the nation. Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, Archbishop
of Montreal, condemned Parliament's action: "If marriage simply
become a union of two persons who love each other, must we then
permit marriage between a brother and a sister? Between a father
and his daughter? Between a mother and her son?" Conservative
Protestants also sounded the alarm. The Evangelical Fellowship
of Canada released a statement expressing disappointment in the
vote and promising a vigorous debate on the issue in coming
months. It may be too late. Janey Epp Buckingham, the group's
director of law and public policy claimed that "millions of
Canadians oppose the redefinition of marriage, and president
Bruce Clemenger asserted that the marriage issue is really not
about rights at all, but about legal definition and public
policy. "If marriage is reduced to merely a contract between two
people, its distinctiveness will be lost and it will be hard for
the government to refuse including other types of
relationships." Tuesday's action in Parliament was bad enough,
but the very next day the House of Commons moved to include
homosexuals under hate crime provisions. Bill C-250 was
sponsored by homosexual MP Svend Robinson, who told the media
that his bill would "recognize that just as we say it's wrong to
promote hatred or violence directed against racial or religious
or ethnic minorities, so too, should we say it's just as wrong
to promote that hatred or violence directed at gay or lesbian
people." [see Toronto Globe and Mail] Others see the bill very
differently--as an attempt to silence Christians by
criminalizing anyone who quotes the Bible's passages against
homosexuality. Brian Rushfeldt of the Canada Family Action
Coalition explains that Canadians opposed to homosexual marriage
"are already being accused of 'hate' speech by homosexual
activists.... When C-250 is passed into law later this fall, the
activists will begin to insist on prosecution to silence their
critics with criminal sanctions." The bill now moves to the
Senate and must eventually receive royal assent to become law.
Both sides now expect the bill to become law by the end of the
year. Celebrating his legislative victory, MP Robinson declared,
"I feel proud to be a Canadian." He has every reason to cheer,
for the gay and lesbian agenda took unprecedented strides
forward in the past week. He appears to be on the winning side.
All this may take their American neighbors by surprise. Many
Americans are unaware of the fact that Canada's public life is
radically secular when compared to the United States. Canada is
pioneering a post-Christian culture, with liberal sexual mores
and a hostility to Christian conviction. In 1997, a Saskatchewan
Human Rights Commission board of inquiry fined a Christian
businessman $4,500 for running an advertisement in The Star
Phoenix newspaper that simply listed four biblical passages that
condemn homosexual behavior [Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, Romans
1:26 and 1 Corinthians 6:9]. The ad did not even provide the
actual text of the verses. Two stickmen holding hands were
pictured in the advertisement, with the international negative
symbol [a red circle bisected by a slash] over the figures. The
board ruled that the symbols, when combined with the biblical
citations, "would expose or tend to expose homosexuals to hatred
or ridicule." According to this Canadian agency, the Bible is
now hate speech. Canada's Christians have plenty of reason to
worry. Sweden has moved to make all anti-homosexual speech a
criminal offense, including sermons or Bible readings that
condemn homosexual behavior. Pastors can be fined and cited for
unacceptable sermons. Canada's legal system is moving quickly in
the same direction--and with the same arguments. The whole idea
of hate speech has a dubious basis in the law. Hate crime laws
set certain groups apart as deserving of special protections.
Christians do not defend physical violence against
anyone--homosexuals included--and call for the full prosecution
of any who would resort to violence or assault. But to label
certain forms of assault hate crimes assumes that the motivation
to harm one person is more criminal than the motivation to harm
another. When hate crimes are extended to speech, the government
sets itself up as a judge of what language or speech is legal or
illegal. The logic of the legislation is clear--no criticism of
homosexuality is allowable, whatever its form or basis. This
would cover not only epithets thrown at homosexuals, but sermons
in Christian pulpits against homosexual bahavior. The move to
silence the pulpit represents the ultimate aim of homosexual
activists. In the end, the biblical condemnation of homosexual
behavior is the great obstacle to the normalization of
homosexuality and all other sexual "lifestyles." So long as a
significant portion of the population claims allegience to the
Bible, gay activists face an insurmountable obstacle to the full
acceptance of their sexuality. If the pulpits can be silenced,
and if the Bible can be set aside as a dangerous, hate-filled
text, the path to full acceptance and normalization is wide
open. Preaching and teaching against homosexuality simply
cannot be allowed. Many fear that the Canadian legislation
would make biblical preaching a crime. Americans will watch our
northern neighbor with increasing wariness and concern.
Homosexual activists here would like to see similar legislation
passed in the United States. In the meantime, Canadian
Christians had better wake up. The Word of God is about to be
labeled as hate speech--and telling the truth is about to become
a crime.

See also:
http://www.canada.com/national/story.asp?id=9A6F834F-D72C-47A0-BA
BE-668235B5F49C and
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34671
As WorldNetDaily reported, opponents fear if Robinson's bill
becomes law, the Bible will be deemed "hate literature" under
the criminal code in certain instances, as evidenced by the case
of a Saskatchewan man fined by a provincial human-rights
tribunal for taking out a newspaper ad with Scripture references
to verses about homosexuality. "I was not surprised it passed,
because we have a morally bankrupt government which cannot see
past its bizarre liberal ideology," Brian Rushfeldt, executive
director of the Canada Family Action Coalition, told
WorldNetDaily.

Just when are you fucking Americans going to learn that Canada is a
separate country and you bastards should not be sticking your
stinking noses in Canada's business.