Saskatchewan Commissioners Resigning or Refusing to "Marry" Homosexuals

Life Site ^ | January 4, 2004

[NYer]

REGINA, January 5, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Eight Saskatchewan marriage commissioners have resigned because of new laws requiring them to "marry" same-sex couples, according to Justice Minister Frank Quennell. Three others said they would go to court if they were fired for refusing to "marry" same-sex couples, according to Saskatoon Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott.

If same-sex couples are refused "marriage" by a commissioner, the complaint will be reviewed by the Justice Department, Quennell said Tuesday, as reported by the Saskatchewan News Network.

"We'd have to investigate the circumstances and potentially remove their power to perform civil marriages because they weren't willing to administer the law as it stands," he said.

Vellacott said the government should be willing to accommodate the religious convictions of its marriage commissioners, as prescribed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code. "You've got specifically the conscience right and religion right that are very explicit (in the charter)," Vellacott said.

Regina marriage commissioner Orville Nichols said he would sue the government rather than resign if challenged for refusing to officiate at a same-sex "marriage."

"I will definitely not resign," Nichols said. "If something like this happens, I'm prepared to go to court . . . We got a letter from them saying that we must do it and if we don't, we're breaking the law and we could lose our commission appointment."

"My definition of marriage is opposite -- male and female -- not two males and two females," Nichols emphasized. "That's why I oppose it."

[HMFIC]

CHAOS IN CANUCKISTAN!

[NYer]

Ping!

[The Teen Conservative]

I knew conservative provinces would start to get smart about East Canada's radical rampage. And they are getting smart.

[NYer]

An excerpt from: In Their Own Words: The Homosexual Agenda:

"Homosexual activist Michelangelo Signorile, who writes periodically for The New York Times, summarizes the agenda in OUT magazine: ...to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes, but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution... The most subversive action lesbian and gay men can undertake --and one that would perhaps benefit all of society-- is to transform the notion of family entirely ." "Its the final tool with which to dismantle all sodomy statues, get education about homosexuality and AIDS into the public schools and in short to usher in a sea change in how society views and treats us."

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Vatican Document On Homosexual Unions

“Homosexual unions are totally lacking in the biological and anthropological elements of marriage and family which would be the basis, on the level of reason, for granting them legal recognition. Such unions are not able to contribute in a proper way to the procreation and survival of the human race. The possibility of using recently discovered methods of artificial reproduction, beyond involving a grave lack of respect for human dignity,(15) does nothing to alter this inadequacy.”
CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITION TO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS

Catholic Ping - please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[AlbertWang]

Why don't we trade Massassassassaachusetts to Canada for 3 or 4 provinces?

[Paleo Conservative]

I knew conservative provinces would start to get smart about East Canada's radical rampage. And they are getting smart.

I wish Alberta and a few other conservative western Canadian provinces would seceed and joing the US. It would for one thing allow the US to build a gas pipeline from Alaska to the rest of the US without having to cross Canada.

[livius]

Unfortunately, I suspect that many of our own (US) city clerks and officials will be facing the same problem in a very few years. The gay lobby is not going to rest until they get their way.

[TonyRo76]

The gay lobby is not going to rest until they get their way.

Or until they all croak from AIDS...whichever comes first.

[Paleo Conservative]

Unfortunately, I suspect that many of our own (US) city clerks and officials will be facing the same problem in a very few years.

I don't think so. I think the gay lobby's power was seriously weakened when 11 out of 11 states passed referenda or constiutional amendments on the ballot on November 2 to restrict marriage to being between one man and one woman. The minimum vote for such an amendment was 58% in Oregon. The maximum was about 85%.

[sgtbono2002]

Its nice to see that everyone in Canada isnt crazy.

[Paleo Conservative]

Why don't we trade Massassassassaachusetts to Canada for 3 or 4 provinces?

Even better. Let the leftist demographics play out for another generation or two in MA. MA has the lowest fertility of any US state, and their leftists have even lower fertility. They will be losing congressional represention and electoral votes in Washington, and would could still pick up three or four western Conservative provinces.

[murphE]

LOL!

[doc30]

In Canada, the general trend is that public officials must check their religious and personal views at the door when they go to work. The Supreme Court will uphold their firings because they were not doing their jobs by marrying queers. To be against gay marriage in Canada, would be discrimination under the law and may even border on a hate crime. It would be like opposing an interracial marriage.

[DoctorMichael]

SELLING HOMSEXUALITY

"Their strategy came dressed up in marketing jargon: Desensitize, jam and convert. As it turns out, though, you could use one word to summarize all those others: manipulation.

[little jeremiah]

Woo Hoo!!

Let's get the ball rolling. Boston Tea Party time.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Homosexual Agenda Ping.

Looks like some Canadians are willing to standing up to oppose sodomarriage. There may be hope.

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