Mr. Speaker, I listened to my colleague's remarks. I happen to agree with the Leader of the Opposition, that this is a bogus human rights issue. I do not see it as a matter of human rights or equality.
I sat on the justice committee for several months and listened to colleagues on both sides of the House and both sides of the table, including some of my colleagues in this party, trying to equate the black civil rights movement and the women's rights movement to the demand for same sex marriage. That is specious logic, at best. It is simply illogical. It shows an incredible ignorance of history. Quite frankly, it is insulting to just about everybody concerned when one tries to draw that comparison.
I wonder if the member honestly believes that one can draw a direct parallel between Martin Luther King standing up on his religious principles and fighting to defend the natural moral law that people are not unequal because of the pigmentation of their skin and a relationship called same sex relationship which fundamentally goes against the natural moral law? Does she really believe that?