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{
"time": "2006-12-06 22:40:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Bill Siksay (Burnaby\u2014Douglas, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"336673\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the member spoke frequently about people of faith, but I want to ask him a question about people of faith who do support the change that was made to the definition of marriage with Bill <a data-HoCid=\"1585203\" href=\"/bills/39-1/C-38/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes\">C-38.</a> There are religious institutions in Canada that do support marrying gay and lesbian couples, whose definition of marriage includes gay and lesbian couples. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"336674\" data-originallang=\"en\">Would he take away their freedom of religion to express that inclusion of gay and lesbian couples in marriage? They have through strong religiously held principles made that decision to marry gay and lesbian couples, to allow them, to allow us to enter into marriage.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"336675\" data-originallang=\"en\">Would he undo their ability to do that? Would he strip away their freedom of religion in order to re-establish a so-called traditional definition of marriage that does not include gay and lesbian couples?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"336673\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le d\u00e9put\u00e9 a beaucoup parl\u00e9 des gens de foi, mais j'aimerais lui poser une question \u00e0 propos de ceux qui appuient le changement \u00e0 la d\u00e9finition du mariage qu'a entra\u00een\u00e9 le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"1585203\" href=\"/bills/39-1/C-38/\" title=\"An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes\">C-38</a>. Certaines institutions religieuses au Canada sont effectivement en faveur du mariage des gais et des lesbiennes, et leur d\u00e9finition du mariage inclut les couples de gais et de lesbiennes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"336674\" data-originallang=\"en\">Leur retirerait-il le droit d'exprimer qu'elles estiment que les gais et les lesbiennes ont le droit de se marier? Ce sont leurs fermes principes religieux qui les ont port\u00e9es \u00e0 d\u00e9cider de c\u00e9l\u00e9brer le mariage entre gais et entre lesbiennes, de le permettre, de nous permettre de nous marier.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"336675\" data-originallang=\"en\">Leur retirerait-il la capacit\u00e9 de le faire? Leur enl\u00e8verait-il leur libert\u00e9 de religion afin de r\u00e9tablir la d\u00e9finition soi-disant traditionnelle du mariage qui exclut les couples de gais et de lesbiennes?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2006/12/6/bill-siksay-13/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/bill-siksay/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1264/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "1823911",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Marriage",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2006/12/6/",
"related": {
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}
}