Gay Marriage Debate Rages in Canada

You may have heard that gay marriage is a hot button issue in Canada, as it is in the US.
(Here's a recent article).


By "hot button issue", I mean that the Supreme Court has already found that it must be allowed, and Parliment is voting it into national law early next year.

The debate here is huge: the Conservative party is saying that churches cannot be forced to perform gay marriages, while the Liberal party says "no duh". Conservatives also say they want to make sure men and women can still get married -- that allowing gay marriage doesn't exclude the possibility that men and women can still marry each other, if they should want to (Liberals: "no duh"). Finally, the Conservatives demand, explicitly, whatever rights conferred upon marriage between a man and a woman, these *same* rights must be given to gay couples in marriage (Liberals: "Oh, for chrissakes, can we go home now?").

Sometimes these debates come off as Monty Python sketches.