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Tuesday March 12, 2002
CANADIAN SENATOR COMPARES CHRISTIAN CHURCH TO TALIBAN FOR UPHOLDING MARRIAGE
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OTTAWA, March 12, 2002 (LSN.ca) - Liberal Senator Laurier L. LaPierre, appointed to the Senate last year by Prime Minister Jean Chretien, compared Christian churches to the Taliban last week in an impassioned and bizarre speech in support of same-sex marriage. LaPierre began his remarks telling the Senate "I am a gay man living ... with a kind and gentle man and whose silver ring I wear."
"The Church," said LaPierre on March 6, supported marriage which "made a woman the property of her husband and subject to him, thus controlling her to the largest possible degree." LaPierre continued his tirade saying the Church "forced her to hide her femininity under yards of cloth and contrived with the men of her family and with her husband to keep her ignorant and chained to the stove - a state that has been the fate of women in every conceivable church and religion we believe in and which have all been established by men wearing skirts." He added: "The Taliban, who also wear skirts, were only following the dictates of tradition."
LaPierre said: "to achieve the end of the subjugation of women it was necessary for the promulgators of marriage to launch a horrible campaign of discrimination against homosexuality - a campaign that coincided, oddly enough, with what became the compelling obsession of most religions: anti-Semitism."
See the full speech of Senator LaPierre:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/37/1/parlbus/chambus/senate/deb-e/093db_2002-03-06-E.htm?
Language=E&Parl=37&Ses=1#0.2.W54BJ2.89DKIH.N39JSG.B1
(with files form Today's Family News)
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