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***We are facing a fact that the kids in Canada will have a possibility to be raised in families consisted of same sex after the marriage of same sex was legalized in 2005. Many people (including me) believe it is not natural and beneficial to the kids to grow up in such environment out of their own choices.
Here it is a "Restore Marriage Canada Petition" you can choose to sign if you want to have the government review this decision. Just for your reference.
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Please Sign the Restore Marriage Canada Petition
Over 35,000 Canadians have already signed our National Petition to Restore Marriage. This petition will be presented to every MP before the critical vote Prime Minister Harper has promised on whether to reconsider the legalization of same-sex marriage in Canada.
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October 16, 2006 It is Still an Uphill Fight, But We are Making Progress in Restoring Marriage in Canada! Everyone Can Help! Dear Defender of Marriage, The showdown over whether to re-open the decision to legalize same-sex marriage in Canada and this time to fully and fairly consider its consequences for our future is still on track for a vote in Parliament before Christmas. At this time, while it still appears that as of now the vote would fall short of a majority, there are some encouraging signs that the momentum may be shifting in our direction. That difference is the broader emphasis on the rights of children that was almost totally ignored in the debate when Bill C-38 passed. The media are beginning to pick up on this and more and more Canadians are thinking about the consequences of what we have done. We Canadians rightly pride ourselves on our concern for individual rights and for our dedication to tolerance. The Liberal Government played upon this aspect of our national character by framing the debate over legalizing same-sex marriage as exclusively an adult right, something that if we did not grant to homosexuals violated their rights and condoned intolerance. The Liberals ignored, suppressed or belittled any debate about the impact on children and the larger interests of society from legally eliminating any recognition of the importance to a child's development of being raised by both a father and a mother if at all possible. Their position is that "parents" are interchangeable and their sex does not matter, even though the overwhelming evidence from the social sciences shows that it is indeed critical. It may be that I have a better appreciation of this debate because I am a practicing physician and have also served in Parliament. I see everyday that men and women are different in profoundly important ways. They react differently, their brains are wired differently, they are different psychologically and physiologically as well as physically. It stands to reason then, that a child raised by a man and a woman is going to develop differently than one raised by either a single or by two "parents" of the same sex. And the evidence is clear and uncontestable that children raised by their married biological parents do the best by far on any measure of wellbeing compared to any other parenting situation. Based on my service in Parliament, I find the position of many of our elected officials to oppose even re-opening the debate over whether we should have legalized same sex marriage to be both troubling and irresponsible. Their refusal to consider all the facts says at least one of several things about them: They have already evaluated all of this evidence on their own before voting on C-38 and found it unpersuasive (they would have had to evaluate it on their own because it was never fully considered in the debate!). They understand the evidence that children do best raised by their married biological parents, but the rights of children to be raised in this situation are outweighed by the rights and desires of adults. They know that although children are our future, they do not care. They are simply tired of the issue and do not want to invest the mental energy and endure the pressure to reconsider the issue no matter how important it might be. I could go on, but there is not a single good reason not to at least thoroughly and fairly look at the all evidence when there is so much at stake. Not to do so is irresponsible and a violation of the public trust. The visits that thousands of Canadians made to their MPs over the past months have had an impact. The growing realization that legalizing same sex marriage raises more complex and much more complicated rights questions than had originally been recognized is also having an impact. It looks now like the vote, which had been expected to come in the next few weeks will now be put off until into December. This means that we still have time to demand that our MPs act responsibly on this critical issue. You can do the following to help: Continue to contact your MPs on this issue. If they are opposed to reconsideration of the same-sex marriage issue, ask them to tell you in detail why and why it is not worth considering the rights of children. Help spread the word to everyone else you know. The more Canadians who understand the importance of considering this issue fairly and thoroughly, the more pressure we will be able to bring on Parliament when the time comes to vote. An easy way to do this is to forward this newsletter on to everyone on your list. If you have not yet joined the tens of thousands of Canadians who have signed our "National Petition to Restore Marriage" please do so. We will be presenting this petition to MPs just before the showdown vote. Click here to sign. Thank you for what so many of you are doing in what is literally the battle for Canada's future. This is a fight we can and must win! Sincerely, The Hon. Dr. Grant Hill, P.C.
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