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www.chinaview.cn 2005-02-02 09:52:08
BEIJING, Feb. 2 -- Canada's minority Liberal government has unveiled draft legislation to permit gay marriage.
Prime Minister Paul Martin says Ottawa had to act, after courts in seven of the country's 10 provinces ruled in favor of same-sex marriages.
To do nothing, he argued, would mean gays and lesbians were being discriminated against in the remaining three provinces.
But church groups and the main opposition Conservative Party say they will do all they can to defeat the bill.
If the bill is approved Canada would become the third country in the world, after Belgium and Holland, to permit same sex marriages.
(http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/02/content_2538181.htm)Prime Minister Paul Martin says Ottawa had to act, after courts in seven of the country's 10 provinces ruled in favor of same-sex marriages.
To do nothing, he argued, would mean gays and lesbians were being discriminated against in the remaining three provinces.
But church groups and the main opposition Conservative Party say they will do all they can to defeat the bill.
If the bill is approved Canada would become the third country in the world, after Belgium and Holland, to permit same sex marriages.
