Same sex marriage

[donvonbra]

LAKE COUCHICHING, Ont. - A religious advisor to George W. Bush, the U.S. President, was heckled and jeered by participants at a prestigious Canadian conference after he denounced same-sex marriage, warning it leads to polygamy and consensual incest.

Richard Land, president of the ethics and religion liberty commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, was interrupted several times by the normally reserved intellectual audience at the annual Couchiching conference.

"If the compelling reason for same-sex marriage is you have a caring loving relationship, how are you going to stop polygamy? If it is a caring loving relationship, how are you going to stop consensual incest, between adults, brothers and sisters, if it is a consensual relationship," asked Mr. Land, head lobbyist on Capitol Hill for the largest non-Catholic denomination in the United States

Mr. Land was responding during a Saturday evening session to a question -- asking him if he would be advising Mr. Bush to drop "this ridiculous idea" of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage and focus instead on other matters such as the economy.

David McGown, the president of the Couchiching Institute of Public Affairs, which hosts the annual conference, said it is the first time he has witnessed heckling at the event since he started attending 10 years ago.

Mr. McGown, who describes the retreat as "Canada's annual gathering of the great and the good," denied the heckling was "anti-American" but rather "very pro-Canadian."

"I think what we heard last night was that stark social cultural difference that Michael Adams talked about," said Mr. McGown, referring to the pollster's presentation on the growing divide between Canada and the United States on the question of religion.

University of Toronto Professor David Novak, who was in the audience, called the interruptions from the audience "out of order" and "rude."

[Big Blue Machine]

I think Canada should oppose same-sex marriage. If we accept same sex marriage, why not multiple marriages at the same time? Society has always been built on the principle that marriage is between a man and woman.

[Black Dog]

I think Canada should oppose same-sex marriage. If we accept same sex marriage, why not multiple marriages at the same time? Society has always been built on the principle that marriage is between a man and woman.

You know, these arguments have been made a bazillion times elsewhere on this forum. Those threads are still open. Can we refrain from opening new threads when there's perfectly good one's already out there on the exact same subject?

[Big Blue Machine]

Fine, lets

[Greg]

Lets remember to search the forums and make sure another thread does not already exist before posting a new topic.

Here is the appropriate thread