By Terry Vanderheyden
OTTAWA, April 6, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Conservative Justice Minister Vic Toews said an election promise by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to hold a free vote on same-sex “marriage” in parliament will be held “sooner rather than later.” According to a CTV.ca report, no action is expected, however, until at least this fall.
After the Liberals passed the same-sex “marriage” law last June, Harper commented: “I don’t think Canadians will see this as a legitimate way to settle this debate, and so this will be an issue for some Canadians in the next election,” as reported by the CBC.
“There will be a chance to revisit this in a future Parliament,” he added, according to Canadian Press coverage. “Our intention is to have a free vote.”
“Undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on the beliefs of virtually all cultural and religious communities who have come to this country,” Harper said at a pro-marriage rally he attended in Ottawa last April. “It is an assault on multiculturalism in any serious sense of the word.”
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Harper Calls Changing Definition of Marriage “An Assault” on Culture and Religion
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/apr/05041207.html
Harper Promises to Revisit Gay “Marriage” Law if he Forms Government
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jun/05062906.html