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Article: Confusion over marriage issue: Stephen Harper and Archbishop Meagher.(Columnist)(Column)
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- Catholic Insight
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- March 1, 2005
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Opposition Leader Stephen Harper cannot have it both ways: promise to uphold the traditional legal definition of marriage, while insisting that homosexual couples should have essentially the same obligations and benefits in law as married couples.
Yet that is precisely the contradictory position that Harper has adopted. In a statement on December 14, he disclosed his intention to move an amendment to the government's legislation on same-sex marriage that will affirm "First, a clear recognition of the traditional definition of marriage; second, full recognition of same-sex relationships as possessing equivalent rights and privileges to marriage."
If, in ...