In our Columnist section, Salim Mansur stands back and takes a look at where we are now that the gay marriage bill is about to become law. Happily, like me and millions of good Canadians, he doesn’t believe the fight for the normal traditional family is over, and it won’t be over until it’s won.
[…] The arguments advanced by supporters of same-sex marriage were never convincing.
Theirs is at best a Pyrrhic victory, acquired by desecrating an institution through a charade that mocked the principles of democracy the prime minister once promised to defend.
Many in opposing the legislation, as I did, were not defending the meaning of traditional marriage merely on sentimental grounds. It could not be demonstrated, nor was it, that marriage is a right in the same sense that freedom to think and speak is a right, freedom to believe in a religion or not to and freedom to own property are rights.
Marriage has always been a social convention sanctified by all traditional religions for being the seed of family. Hence, the relationship between marriage and family was viewed as the moral basis of society and an integral aspect of the natural order of things. […]
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