Canadian Activist: Court-Mandated 'Homosexual Marriage' Could Prove Downfall to New Gov't

by Chad Groening
July 7, 2004

(AgapePress) - The co-founder and executive director of the Canadian version of the Christian Coalition says Canada's new minority Liberal government may be short-lived if Parliament is forced to deal with a court-mandated "homosexual marriage" law.

Even though he is disappointed at the near miss the Conservatives posted in the recent parliamentary elections, Brian Rushfeldt of the Canada Family Action Coalition believes the razor-thin Liberal government might go down if the Canadian Supreme Court rules that Parliament must pass a law mandating same-sex marriage. (See Earlier Article)

"I do believe that there's enough members of Parliament in the current government ... that [such] marriage legislation would be defeated," he says, "and if it got defeated, potentially that would be the fall of the [Liberal-led] government."

Rushfeldt believes a strong Conservative government would fight the liberal court's mandate. "If we were to get a Conservative government, then I think we would clearly have enough members of Parliament to fight the court and override that ruling," he says. "But that will only happen if we have a strong Conservative government."

Rushfeldt says he is pretty sure the Canadian high court will rule the wrong way, probably in October -- despite the fact that many of the Liberals and most of the Conservatives in Ottawa do not want same-sex unions legalized.