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Church-State Divisions in Canada
10 December 2004Paul Matthews, of Maisonneuve, gives a editorial-round-up after Canada's Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is constitutional (the ruling guaranteed religious institutions' right to refuse to perform gay marriages), and finds that Canada may be more like America, in terms of culture-war division, than it would like to admit. Canada's "Bix Six" newspapers have all featured commentary from traditionalists angry at the ruling, with one paper excluding any pro-gay-marriage viewpoints from its op-ed page altogether. Matthews writes that only The Globe argued the inevitability of the ruling: "'Marriage has not been a strictly religious matter for years. It is now simply a set of privileges granted to those whose unions are socially approved by society...To those worried about preserving the word’s meaning, wake-up: it lost its sanctity the second it was open, in the civil sphere, to heterosexual couples who had no intention of working with a religious community on their path to matrimony.'"
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