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SAME-SEX MARRIAGE UPDATE

Despite the efforts of a handful of judges on the Ontario and BC Courts of Appeal, and despite an all-out effort by Canada's media, opposition to same-sex marriage appears to be hardening in Canada. A COMPAS poll, commissioned by the National Post and conducted in October and November 2003, found that only 31% of Canadians believe that marriage should be open to homosexuals/lesbians.

This strong resistance to same-sex marriage has placed Prime Minister Martin in a dilemma. This topic is shaping up to be a hot-button issue, not only with the Canadian public, but also within the Liberal caucus and Cabinet. The issue will also undoubtedly be a problem for Mr. Martin in the forthcoming federal election, expected to be called at the end of April. Moreover, none of the eight remaining provinces or territories, or any other jurisdiction in the world, have accepted or recognized the pseudo homosexual/lesbian "marriages" performed in Ontario and BC.

To stave off these mounting problems over the same-sex marriage issue, it is, therefore, probable that Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler will now ask the Supreme Court to widen the Reference questions to add one or more questions.

The Supreme Court of Canada has set the Reference questions to be heard on April 16. (REAL Women applied in November 2003 to intervene on the Reference questions.)

Widening the questions will result in the Court's timetable being set back months, and the case will probably not be heard until late fall, long after the election which Mr. Martin hopes will give him a huge majority. After that, he will feel free to do what he likes on the same-sex marriage issue - in typical, arrogant Liberal fashion!

Media Working Overtime on Same-sex Marriage Issue

Meanwhile, the media are doing their level best to indoctrinate the public on the same-sex marriage issue. The Globe and Mail solicited input for nominations for recognition of "Canada's Nation Builder for 2003," and included in its list of great Canadians, the three deluded judges of the Ontario Court of Appeal who brought down the decision in favour of same-sex marriages. The homosexual web site "www.equalmarriage.ca" exhorted its supporters to nominate the three judges. On December 13, 2003, the Globe and Mail, not surprisingly, announced these judges as the winners "after weeks of nominations." The newspaper devoted a full page to a soulful photograph of these judges, and then two more pages of copy to tell "their" story. It was quite a build-up, but such obvious humbug that nobody paid much attention to it. "Operation Overboard" would be a good description of the event. Obviously the decision of the judges was highly controversial and not acceptable to a majority of Canadians. To call the judges "nation builders" under these circumstances is to insult the intelligence of the public.

Meanwhile, the Canadian editors of Time Magazine tried not to be outdone by the Globe and Mail. They selected as Canadian Newsmakers of the Year, Michael Leshner and Michael Stark, the first same-sex partners to marry after the Ontario Court of Appeal decision. (The American editors of Time Magazine had more sense and selected American soldiers as the newsmakers of the year). The Canadian Time Magazine editors claimed that same-sex partners represented Canada's new "social liberalism in 2003." The magazine should be less gullible: it was the media and courts' "social liberalism" they were talking about, not that of the Canadian public.

Moreover, according to CTV's Canada AM (Dec. 22, 2003) a Time Magazine poll found that 83% of Canadians did not agree with Time Magazine's choice of the homosexual couple as Canada's newsmakers of the year; only 17% agreed with the choice.

We can expect more of such nonsense from the media in their transparent and desperate attempt to arouse the Canadian public to their side on the same-sex marriage issue. Fortunately, we are not so easily fooled.

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