This article by David Frum was originally posted in the Dec. 14 National Post—but not available online for some reason.
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by David Frum
We’ve had gay and lesbian marriages in six provinces for almost a year and society hasn’t collapsed.” So said NDP MP Bill Siksay in the House of Commons last week. You have to wonder: Isn’t that setting the policy bar a little low? Normally, we expect a new government idea to pass a higher threshold than, “It didn’t cause an utter catastrophe during its first few months in operation.”
Same-sex marriage has now been grafted into the Canadian constitution; very shortly it will be legislated into Canadian law. But before Canadians accept Mr. Siksay’s “What, me worry?” point of view, they might want to wait for the answers to some urgent questions:
– Did homosexuals ever really want to marry in the first place?
There are about 24 million Canadians between the ages of 18 and 65. It’s a reasonable guess that about 750,000 of them are gay.
In June and July 2003, the two largest English-speaking provinces, Ontario and British Columbia, began issuing marriage licences to same-sex couples. Within the first six months, some 300 Canadian same-sex couples had been married in B.C. Within the first year, about 4,000 Canadian couples had been married in Ontario.
Since then, the number of same-sex marriages seems to have dropped off. National statistics are hard to come by, but it’s a good guess that 18 months after same-sex marriage arrived in Canada, some 98% of adult Canadian gays have chosen to ignore their new legal right.
– Will same-sex marriage damage the institution of marriage generally?
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