Civil disobedience urged over passage of Canadian same-sex marriage bill
Canadian leaders are already urging civil disobedience over passage of Bill C-38 in the House of Commons. Two articles from LifeSiteNews.com show some initial reactions to the bill's passage:Professor Urges Canadians Not to Recognize Gay 'Marriage' even if it is 'Law'
MONTREAL, June 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A McGill professor is encouraging Canadians to reject the new same-sex "marriage" legislation.
Douglas Farrow, associate professor of Christian thought at McGill University in Montreal, proposes that Bill C-38 is "illicit legislation, the binding nature of which must be contested."
The change to the legal definition of marriage assumes a "positivist view" of law – one that "admits few givens, and no firm limits, for political or juridical authority." The positivist view contrasts with the classical tradition, which, like the preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, links belief in the rule of law to belief in the supremacy of God.
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Canadian Bill C-38 Final Passage Eerily Coincides With Sodom and Gomorrah Readings at Catholic Masses
TORONTO, June 28, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The likely final passage this evening of Canada’s same-sex marriage bill C-38 was eerily highlighted by today’s daily Mass readings, encountered by Catholics who attended Mass across the nation. Today’s scripture readings, which are established years ahead according to an international liturgical calendar, contained passages that astonished many by their direct relevance to the disturbing culmination of the same-sex marriage legislation battle.
The first reading, from the book of Genesis Chapter 19, relates the infamous story of the punishment of Sodom and Gomorrah as a result of its sexual and especially homosexual immorality. The second reading from the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 8:23-27, in the New Testament, relates the story of the apostles’ terror while in a boat in the midst of a violent storm. When they ask Jesus to save them he responds "Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?"
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posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 1:30 PM
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