Eli Schuster The Interim In his famous book, The Trouble With Canada, William Gairdner blasted then-prime minister Brian Mulroney’s 1988 promise of a national daycare scheme as “an openly socialist measure,” arguing: “This program, which, if it ever comes into effect, I believe history will show, to be a crucial factor in the breakdown of the Canadian family (primarily because it subsidizes [...]
LifeSiteNews.com Special to The Interim Canada’s Liberal government has been pushing the line that ending discrimination against sexual orientation necessitates allowing same-sex “marriage.” With his Liberal colleagues spouting that line at home, Canada’s Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew was in Geneva March 14, urging the United Nations to fight discrimination based on sexual orientation. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights opened its [...]
Editor’s Note: Excerpts from the House of Commons debates over C-38, the government’s legislation that redefines marriage to include homosexual couples. Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton-Melville, CPC) “In 1999 I voted alongside my colleagues and with those sitting across the way on the government side, and my vote was in favour of the traditional definition of marriage and so to were the votes cast [...]
Rev. Tristan Emmanuel The Interim In the current marriage debate, we have identified problems and rehashed history, but many social conservatives haven’t actually answered the most fundamental question of all: what is marriage? The debate does beg this fundamental question. After all, there are a whole bunch of issues that Christians could rally behind. What makes marriage so unique that it deserves [...]
Terry O’Neill Special to The Interim Abubaker Abusbeaa, the manager of Vancouver’s Islamic Information Centre, says that there’s a lot more talk amongst his Muslim friends these days about the possible legalization of polygamy. After all, they figure, if marriage is being redefined for the purpose of allowing two men to marry, then why not a man and two women? “It’s not [...]
Bill 171 proved to be a tale of political scheming, as ‘spouse’ was redefined in provincial laws Analysis by Steve Jalsevac Special to The Interim Last months’s brutally rushed passage of same-sex marriage legislation in the Ontario legislature is still causing observers of the undemocratic fiasco to shake their heads. A usually reliable source reported the Ontario Liberals pushed through their same-sex [...]
The Conservative Party of Canada’s founding convention (March 17 to 19, 2005 in Montreal) resulted in the new party taking a position in support of the traditional definition of marriage and a position against a future CPC government taking any action on the abortion issue. Here is a timeline and description of the events leading up to the convention and the highlights [...]
Mike Mastromatteo The Interim Pro-life and pro-family groups are not optimistic that a forthcoming decision from the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal will advance the cause of freedom of religion in Canada. At issue is the rental of a Knights of Columbus hall in Port Coquitlam, B.C. for a lesbian wedding reception. The Knights of Columbus is a Catholic men’s fraternal organization. The [...]
I have been very busy recently I had not written an article for the March Issue of The Interim. But, when I read the shameful attacks on Bishop Fred Henry in the secular newspapers my conscience took over and I decided to stay up late and write in defence of His Lordship. Bishop Henry’s defence of “True marriage” is not based only [...]
Doreen Beagan It says on the radio and TV and in the papers: the majority of Canadians support same-sex “marriage.” Also on the radio and TV, and the premise of many comedy routines, is: the majority of Canadians hate George Bush. But I don’t. I believe same-sex marriage” is an oxymoron and I’m glad George Bush holds the same view. War is [...]
On Jan. 20, the National Post reported that the Women’s Secretariat, an agency of the federal government that focuses on women’s issues, has called for scholarly papers on the effects of polygamy on women and children which it says could become a legal reality now that Canada is on the verge of approving same-sex “marriage.” Later that day, Stephen Harper suggests that [...]
Roy Leishman Consider the following pronouncement: “Homosexual conduct constitutes a moral problem in four ways: it violates the will of God as an offence against the proper expression of sexuality in monogamous marriage; by misuse of natural functions, homosexual activity is a sin against the self; since it involves at least one other person of the same sex, with or without his [...]
Rev. Royal Hamel “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.” A question keeps gnawing away in the back of my mind, “Where is the moral outrage”? Prime Minister Martin, the minister of justice and a handful of judges are hell-bent on imposing state-sanctioned sodomy on all of Canada. They keep saying, “It’s only about civil marriage.” [...]
Commentary by Kate McMillan The Interim The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal heard a case recently in which two women claimed the Knights of Columbus, a Roman Catholic men’s society, discriminated against them by refusing to permit the renting of a hall for a same-sex wedding reception. And so it begins – or, shall I say, continues. I hold no particular religious beliefs. [...]
LifeSiteNews.com Special to The Interim Canadian Tire may find itself the subject of a boycott for its sponsorship of a television show promoting homosexual “marriage.” The show, My Fabulous Gay Wedding, will feature six one-hour episodes focusing on a different same-sex couple, as they prepare for, and are, “married.” The corporation has so far refused to cancel its sponsorship of the program, [...]