Canadian Activist Expects Delay in Revocation of Same-Sex 'Marriage' Law
by Chad Groening
March 13, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A Canadian pro-family activist says there are simply not enough Conservative votes right now for Parliament to repeal the law that gave marriage rights to homosexuals last year in Canada. The issue, he says, probably won't even be discussed until the fall.
Brian Rushfeldt says he was very pleased with the recent elections in his country that resulted in Conservative Brian Harper becoming prime minister of Canada. But the chairman of the Calgary-based Canada Family Action Coalition does not believe the new PM has enough Conservative members of Parliament (MPs) to reinstate traditional marriage, as was promised during the campaign.
"When we started crunching our numbers and looking at new MPs who are sitting in our House of Commons, and looking at some of the ones who got defeated -- when we did the numbers on it, we have not really changed the numbers significantly from the last vote that approved [homosexual] marriage," Rushfeldt laments.
The CFAC leader admits his concern over a Conservative minority in Parliament. "To actually deal with the marriage issue from a political standpoint on a bill or a motion is going to be very difficult to win," he says, "because I just don't think we've got enough Conservative members of Parliament sitting there to actually make the change."
Nevertheless, Rushfeldt believes Prime Minister Harper will work to solidify his government before attempting to even bring up the marriage issue. The pro-family leader says he does not expect it to be discussed until this fall at the earliest.
Chad Groening, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
