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As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

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Mean, Views, Choices

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Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.

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Homosexuality, Disorder, Mental Disorder

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Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

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Home, School, Government

"Can Stockwell Day separate church from state?" by Gordon Laird, www.theglobeandmail.com. July 17, 2000.

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It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

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Reality, Conservative, Said

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The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

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Trying, Typical, Stories

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Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

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Law, Principles, Canada

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It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

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Prayer, Political, Would Be

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I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

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Freedom, Believe, Speech

House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. May 3, 2005.

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Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

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Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few of the industries, within this diverse riding, that help maintain a growing economy.

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Numbers, Agriculture, Tourism

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The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.

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Real, People, Intolerance

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In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.

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Issues, People, United States

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People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'

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Prison Population, People, Nerves

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Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.

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Party, Iraq, Voting

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The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

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Past, Government, Engineering

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Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

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Religious, Sex, Government

Government Orders: Civil Marriage Act, www.ourcommons.ca. May 3, 2005.

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Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.

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Media, Definitions, Court

House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

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Knights, Groups, Use

House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

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Wise, Moving, Brave New World

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Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

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Empires, Canada, Cabinets

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Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.

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Sex, Biblical, Rights

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If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

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Sex, School, Law

House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

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Party, Two, Conservative

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My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

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Perfect, Wife, Parent

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Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

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Challenges, Activism, Judicial

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