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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
If you look at the polls on gay marriage over the last 15 years, it's clearly an issue that a great many Canadians have changed their minds about. Half the people who support gay marriage today were once against it. Do you believe all Canadians who changed their mind on the issue are being opportunist and insincere, or only the politicians?
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Politicians are the only ones to gain by being insincere on this....and if a politician has something to gain by being insincere, I'm not going to put it past them.
Looking at the numbers, 2/3rds of the party supported it this time. I wouldn't be surprised if 1/3 of those did it more because they are concerned about elect-ability than actually changing their minds.
"In a 1,036-462 vote, delegates from all provinces except Saskatchewan cast majority votes in favour of no longer defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman."
So what they decided, it seams, is not to support gay marriage but to stop opposing it.
If you look at some quotes from the delegates,
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"The most important thing we need to remember is we're not redefining marriage here,'' said Natalie Pon, one of the resolution's sponsors.
"We're just taking out a definition that is out of date and out of touch.''
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An attempt to justify with herself that they aren't actually supporting it.
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“I think it’s a no-brainer. This issue was resolved 10 years ago. There is no point in having … obsolete language about something that was changed in law and society a decade ago,” the Calgary MP said.[Jason Kenney]
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...doing it because it was resolved in the courts...