OTTAWA, January 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Justice Minister Irwin Cotler has announced that he will introduce the Liberal government bill to change the definition of marriage to one that would include same-sex couples, in early February.
He hopes it will pass before the House rises in June.
In his announcement Cotler seemed to take comfort in the activist court decisions that have forced homosexual ‘marriage’ on seven provinces and one territory in Canada. “If the bill does not pass, the likelihood is that the constitutional development will continue in the other provinces, and we will likely see this issue being arrived at one by one in the courts,” the Canadian Justice Minister said.
Cotler has been a strong advocate of re-definition of marriage to include same-sex couples. After being sworn in as Justice Minister in 2003, Cotler said, “I believe that gays must have all the rights arising out of marriage.” And in August of 2004, he suggested to CTV News that civil unions become an option for all Canadians, describing such an institution as “a civil marriage with all the rights and benefits and obligations of a marriage.”
In a response to a question from a letter writer, Campaign Life Coalition explained why Cotler is using the judicial decisions mandating marriage rights for homosexual persons as his excuse for the new legislation.
CLC wrote, “Canadian law schools have been dominated by ideological liberals for years and abetted by government elites in this. Unknown to the public, government elites have also deliberately arranged the selection and appointment of many judges with leftist ideological leanings. Finally, millions of tax dollars from the Court Challenges Program have been cunningly given by the federal government to social radical groups to obtain judgments from the judges appointed by the government to force that same government to make unpopular changes to laws that would likely not pass through the democratic process”.
Canada’s Faith and family groups are in the midst of developing plans and distributing materials to defeat the bill.
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