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And the other side will say the same damn thing to gays wanting to be termed "married"...dont trot that BS out, it doesn't help.And the other side will say the same damn thing to gays wanting to be termed "married"...dont trot that BS out, it doesn't help.
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What will the other side say? That we're not a secular democracy but some kind of Judeo-Christian theocracy? In that case, they're simply wrong; there's no shades of gray there.
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And in a democracy I thought majority ruled...when a majority (though narrow) of Canadians are actually opposed to C-38, why is it rammed through anyhow?
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Majority rules so long as it doesn't tample the rights of minorities. Courts in eight provinces and one territory found that Canada's old marriage laws were discriminatory; therefore, the new marriage law was written.
If democracies were about straight majority rule, Canada wouldn't need the Charter and the US wouldn't need the Constitution. These documents exist to protect minorities from the "tyranny of the majority".