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THE REAL NEWS The R.E.A.L WOMEN of BC Newsletter August 2003, BOX 39068, Point Grey RPO, Vancouver, BC V6R 4P1, Tel/Fax: 604- 463-1611, website: http://www.realwomen.bc.ca, e-mail: lgeschke@almatree.net Back to contents
Letter to the Province Newspaper As a guest speaker at the CASJFVA Rally for Marriage on Saturday, August 16, 2003, I write to protest the inaccurate coverage this event was given in your Sunday paper. There were only about 50 to 75 homosexuals loudly protesting, that I could see from the vantage point of the speakers'' spot on the steps. We were there to show our support for the traditional definition of marriage as a legal contract between and a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others. We were also exercising our freedoms of conscience, religion, thought, belief, opinion and expression, and our freedoms of peaceful assembly and association. These are all freedoms given to all Canadians in Section 2 of the Charter. All these freedoms WILL be undermined for many Canadians with the draft bill to change the definition of marriage to include same sex couples, but they will also be undermined by Bill C-250. Bill C-250 is a much bigger threat to our freedoms right now, for Parliament goes back into session on September 15 and Bill C-250 is currently scheduled to be voted on as early as September 17. We must all as individuals and families visit or call our MP and all the Liberal MP’’s in BC with the message that we do not want them to allow Bill C-250 to be made law. They need to know that how they vote on Bill C-250 WILL influence how we vote. If you do not do this, we will not have the freedom to gather as we gathered on August 16 to protest any change to the marriage law (or any other law) in favour of homosexual men and women. With regard to the definition of Marriage. The population of Canada is over 30 million. Greater Vancouver’’s population is more that 3.5 million. There are approximately 200 Appeal Court Judges across Canada and three of these appointed judges in Ontario decided that the institution of Marriage must be redefined. Who is in charge? This change is not the will of the people. It is not the will of the vast majority of our MP’’s, who voted just four years ago with more than a 66% majority to protect the current definition of Marriage. Yet, our parliamentary system, consisting of 301 elected representatives from across this nation have been told what to do by three unknown, unaccountable, unelected Canadians. Then our Federal government does not appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada which they should have done; they do not invoke the notwithstanding clause which they could have done; instead they acquiese; and they draft a bill to change the definition of Marriage. Then they give it to the courts for approval before it is even made law by democratic parliamentary process. The courts are only supposed to use the laws which have been made to administer justice. But wait: Can we even trust the courts to administer law justly? This past week a National Post Poll found that 71% of Canadians believe the Courts have too much power! In case after case between homosexual rights and religious freedoms, the courts have ruled in favour of homosexual rights. Decisions in the cases of Scott Brockie, Trinity Western University, Mark Hall, and the Surrey School Board and all placed limits on Canadians’’ freedoms of conscience, thought and expression in order to promote homosexual rights in Canada. You CAN do something. Get informed. Join REAL Women of BC to receive our Newsletters and emails. Talk to your MP about Bill C-250 and tell them that how they vote WILL influence how you vote. Then vote! For the future of our nation –– in God’’s hands.
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