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This is definitely a win for Canada, if you actually enjoy having the government decide who you can or cannot marry. All that this does is affirm the strangle-hold over social institutions (such as marriage) that the Canadian government has. Congratulations.
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This is an issue I hear confused a lot so I'll let it slide. The important thing to realize is that when the government tells you who you CAN'T marry then it is involved in religious affairs. The way Canadian law is structured by making homosexual marriage a constitutional right, it is not saying that churchs have to sanction it, but that the government has to recognize it if they get a certificate from the state (which it would then not have the right to deny). Because of the double-negative manner the argument is structured, it is easy to think that the pro-homosexual marriage advocates are trying to bring the government into church affairs, but by not recognizing these sorts of marriages now they are already involved and by allowing recognition of them only then is the government out of church business.