Mr. Speaker, those are the kinds of questions one could expect from a lawyer who could not find a job being a lawyer so he turned out to be a politician.
Of course I believe in all rights for all individuals. The member knows that. However, this is not about rights, The definition of marriage has never been about rights. Nowhere in the world is it recognized as a right. It is about social values. It is about a society that sets the tone for the kind of a country in which we want to live.
If those courts would have been challenged, like the government should have done on the lower court's decision when that happened, we might not be here debating this whole thing today. This is not about rights and it is not about equality. This is about a social value that was established in our country and in the world a long time before we ever came. We have no right to interfere with that.