CANADIAN SSM AND THE CHURCHES: Calgary Herald editorial

...The problem for Christian churches is that such constitutional niceties have proved to be no protection. Since 1992, when the Supreme Court of Canada "read-in" sexual orientation to the Canadian Human Rights Act, homosexual rights have consistently bested religious conscience in courts and before provincial human rights commissions. Christians have watched with growing alarm the erosion of their free-speech rights to proclaim their reading of biblical teaching on homosexuality. ...

Minister Paul Martin last week promised dissident Liberal MPs increased religious protections in Bill C-38.

But, he promises what he cannot deliver. No politician can control how courts or commissions will rule in the future. Gay advocates are well aware of that. That's what enables Bourassa to boldly articulate what amounts to an anti-church strategy, without even the reasonable caution of waiting for Martin's bill to pass.

Yet, while Bourassa's confidence of an impending victory is well-placed, he will find that it is ultimately transitory. The church has a moral authority parallel to that of the state -- and while the state can tax it, or even ban it, it can never own it.

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