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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
They had a majority government and didn't do anything to ban or restrict Gay marriage, on top of it they strengthened the laws in terms of supporting Gay marriage while they were in power, so this is grandstanding at the best of it.
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Well, prior to Martin's enactment of the Civil Marriage Act, a judicial consensus had more or less formed. I suspect that the Justice Department advised Harper that significant changes to that legislation would not survive legal challenge.