same sex marriage/blessing Articles
Block gay marriage, Catholics urge Martin
January 19, 2005
Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Toronto, sailed full-steam yesterday into Canada's marriage debate, making public a letter to Prime Minister Paul Martin urging him to maintain marriage as a heterosexual rite and use the Constitution's notwithstanding clause to overrid...
Liberal rabbis welcome same-sex marriage ruling
December 24, 2004
Reactions in Jewish circles were predictably mixed to the decision on same-sex marriage by the Supreme Court of Canada, Ron Scillag, a reporter with The Canadian Jewish News, writes. Liberal rabbis joined liberal clergy from other faiths to praise the court
Pope slams gay marriage
December 20, 2004
Pope John Paul II delivered his sternest criticisms on the issue of same-sex marriage in his pre-Christmas messages, saying that gay people were plotting an 'agressive attempt to legally undermine the family.'
Same-Sex Marriage: Faith groups quietly declare a Cold war
December 20, 2004
The reactions to the Canada's Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage varies. Joe Woodard of the Calgary Herald reports that, while Calgary pastors are choosing not to preach or talk about the issue publicly, they say they would turn in their marriage licenses if they are forced to perform marr...
Marriage a union between one man, one woman
December 20, 2004
To affirm homosexuality is to insult the nature and being of God, writes Calgary pastor Ron Leech. He points out that homosexuality is a sin that violates God's intention for human creation itself. Deliberately choosing to sin is an intentional rebellion, and homosexuality distorts the image of G...
Withdrawing from marriage
December 12, 2004
Roland De Vries, a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada and a PhD candidate in the McGill Faculty of Religious Studies, writes that every marriage ceremony conducted in a church, the shared participation of Church and State in the solemnization of marriage, is "one of the last vestiges o...
Judicial activism won't be thwarted
December 11, 2004
"The same-sex marriage revolution is upon us with a vengeance, now with legal approval from the highest court in the land," a column in The National Post reads. In the article, the author suggests that "endless striving for equality would eventually subvert democracy."
Same-sex marriage is upheld
December 11, 2004
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the power to change the definition of marriage lies exclusively with the federal government, not the provinces. The court also ruled that a proposed bill to legalize same-sex marriage is constitutional and fell within its legislative authority and was consis...
