Same-sex marriage was undemocratically passed into law in Canada in June 2005. The then Liberal government, aided by the secular media, argued that same-sex marriage was necessary on the basis of “equality” for homosexuals who were supposedly experiencing painful discrimination because they could not enter into legal recognized marriages with their same-sex partners. This, it turns out, was a lie.
Certainly many homosexuals themselves made clear at that time that same-sex marriage was not a concern in their community. For example, Gareth Kirkby, then managing editor of the homosexual newspaper, Xtra West, stated back on September 6, 2001, that:
In our culture, we haven’t created the same hierarchy as has heterosexual culture. We know that love has many faces, and names, ages, places… We know that a 30-year relationship is not better, no better, than a nine-week, or nine-minute, fling – it’s different, but not better. Both have value. We know that the instant intimacy involved in that perfect 20-minute [sic]…in Stanley Park can be a profoundly beautiful thing. We know a two-year relationship where people live apart is as beautiful, absolutely as beautiful, as a 30-year relationship where people live together. We know that the people involved in an open relationship can love each other as deeply as the people in a closed relationship…
Mitchel Raphael, Editor-in-Chief of the Toronto-based homosexual magazine, “Fab” stated in an editorial in the May 5, 2005 issue:
The gay marriage movement in Canada has been spearheaded by a handful of lawyers and a few homo activists who most queers couldn’t name if their lives depended on it. …. For a multiplicity of reasons – queer apathy, for one – there has been no mass gay movement supporting same-sex marriage here in Canada.
Yet, Liberals working in close collaboration with the homosexual lobby group, EGALE, assisted by a compliant media, pushed through the same sex marriage bill despite the views of the public as well as of the homosexual community itself.
Those who opposed same-sex marriage for very valid reasons could not get a word in the media or in Parliament where very little dissent was permitted. Those who objected to same sex marriage were curtly dismissed as bigoted reactionaries willfully discriminating against deserving and decent same-sex couples who only wanted to publicly pledge and commit their love.
It turns out, however, according to recently released statistics, that pledging their love by legal marriage is not high on the agenda for homosexuals. Recently released federal figures from Statistics Canada indicate that less then 5% of homosexual Canadians have bothered to marry since same-sex marriage was legalized in 2005.
What is more, the lies and distortions by the media, and former Liberal government on this issue are still continuing. This was disclosed from a surprising source – namely the Ottawa Hill Times in its September 24, 2007 issue in an article written by its regular columnist, Tom Korski. The Hill Times, by the way, is a prominent newspaper distributed to all the politicians and bureaucrats on Parliament Hill on a weekly basis. In short, it’s read by everyone who counts on Parliament Hill. The article points out that the Canadian media is still covering up for homosexuals on the same-sex marriage issue by its failure to report the small number of homosexuals who have actually married in Canada and further that the media still takes its propaganda direct from the homosexual lobbyists EGALE. This only proves what we already know – the secular media is nothing more than a propaganda machine for the politically correct.
As usual, the ever prescient Gareth Kirkby of Capital Xtra makes clear how the work for same-sex marriage was a total waste of time and money. In an editorial in the October 18, 2007 issue of the newspaper he sums up the same-sex marriage issue as follows:
Remember the headlines as media picked up on the propaganda of pro-marriage forces, like EGALE and Canadians for Equal Marriage? The headlines that claimed we were flocking to city hall and churches to get the deed done as courts legalized same-sex marriage province after province. And again, similar headlines as the lobbyists claimed we were rushing to say our vows out of fear that Stephen Harper would reverse federal legislation allowing marriages nationwide. EGALE claimed last October that 10,000 couples had married. It was a lie. Very few among us are eager to embrace marriage rights…
Didn’t we just spend a decade and by some estimates $2 million to wage this fight? Didn’t we just put all our other major issues virtually on ice because some couples, a few lawyers and a couple of out-of-touch lobby groups decided that same-sex marriage was the only thing that really mattered…
Marriage is a heterosexual institution designed by the church, endorsed by the state, with the intention of controlling the sexuality of women and by extension, their husbands. [Sic]…
I don’t expect the wedding rate will pick up. We have something better in our relationships, something that allows for a variety of friendships, f… buddies, lovers, sisters and exes. We don’t put all the pressures on one person …
We don’t need the limitations of marriage. So we’re taking a pass. But what a waste of time and money, and a tragic diversion of focus, in that decade-long fight. Let’s move on to more important work.
The following is the revealing article on same sex marriage published in The Hill Times (September 24, 2007).
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The Hill Times
Monday, September 24, 2007
This just in … less than five per cent of gay Canadians wed since 2005
For all the hype and histrionics, new data show gay Canadians are just mild about marriage. Ironic, yes?
By Tom Korski
For all the hype and histrionics, new data show gay Canadians are just mild about marriage. Ironic, yes?
The Commons, courts, and churches were spurred into years-long debate over the issue in the belief it was vital or at least relevant to the gay community. Yet recent federal figures show less than five per cent of gay Canadians have wed since the country legalized same-sex marriage in 2005.
The number was not widely reported. Instead, a media image depicted gay Canadians enthusiastically embracing traditional roles at the exact moment the rest of society spirals into family dysfunction.
“Thank heavens for gay marriage,” wrote Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente. “Without it, the most ancient of all our social institutions would be in even worse decline than it already is.”
Other journalists advised readers “the nuclear family is fading away,” (Edmonton Sun) and that “same-sex couples are taking the reins,” (CTV.ca), or mocked “The myth of the perfect family,” (Vancouver Sun) and lamented “there is no such thing as traditional family anymore,” (Moose Jaw Times Herald).
In one comically inelegant phrase CTV National’s Lloyd Robertson told viewers, “If you’re part of a so-called traditional family where the children are raised by a mother and father who are married, you seem to be a declining breed.”
Breeders in decline: How’s that a Happy Father’s or Mother’s Day card?
Media mythology was helped along by lobbyists like EGALE, the group Equality for Gays and Lesbians that campaigned to amend marriage law. EGALE also petitioned the federal government to alter the wording of 2006 census forms to encourage the reporting of gay unions.
A gay journalist, John McKellar, once wrote of EGALE’s campaign, “Despite the impression you get from the media, marriage barely shows up on our community’s radar screen.” EGALE’s focus was “nonsense,” he wrote in a 2005 National Post essay.
New data prove McKellar was right.
Census surveys found only 7,465 gay married couples in Canada. It is a fraction the number cited by gay lobbyists. Then-EGALE organizer Laurie Arron last October 24 told CTV NewsNet “over 10,000 same-sex couples have gotten married.” An even high number 12,438 was cited in a Nov. 20 news release.
“There are more and more all the time,” he told a reporter. Resulting coverage was, well, dizzying. “Gay and lesbian couples are marrying at a dizzying pace,” gasped the Victoria Times-Colonist.
Media failed to note the actual incidence of same-sex marriage was miniscule.
StatsCan three years ago calculated the number of homosexual and bisexual Canadian at 316,900. It was the first enumeration of its kind (see StatsCan Daily, June 15, 2004, “Community Health Survey” pg. 9). The number of married couples – 7,465 or fewer than 15,000 men and women – represents only 4.7% of the community.
When census data was released, StatsCan compiled background information to explain the subject to reporters. “It was available to anybody who asked for it,” a statistician told me. How many asked for it? “Not many.”
Instead, some media sought the help of gay lobbyists in depicting just the right image of same-sex relationship. CBC-TV’s Sasa Petricic illustrated a Sept. 12 story on family demographics with a young gay couple, Kevin Smith and Neil Pengelly, strolling with a baby in a Toronto park. One of them, Smith, said other gay people were eager to “have the family life they’ve always wanted to have.”
Petricic concluded, “All kinds of policies which were drafted in a different era for a different Canada will have to reconsidered now. … Laws on custody and divorce will have to be rewritten.”
The inference was misleading: 95.3 percent of gay Canadians do not choose “family life” as shown by the TV couple.
Interestingly, Smith, Pengelly and baby were videotaped strolling through the identical park in a similar story on CTV National that same evening.
How did rival TV networks use the same couple to present a Leave It To Beaver image of gay married life? CBC refused to comment; but a CTV spokesman confirmed the network contacted an unnamed “prominent gay and lesbian organization” for assistance with its story. It declined to name the organization. The result seemed to be a staged stroll for the cameras.
Less-scripted coverage might have provoked interesting questions of public interest.
Such as, why are gay Canadians so ambivalent about marriage? Who does EGALE really speak for? And do Ottawa’s gay lobbyists deserve the media platform they enjoy?
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