Mr. Speaker, my colleague behind me has said that is what is known as a leading question. I think the member himself has in fact answered the question.
I believe that there is quite clearly a distinction in this legislation between a civil marriage and a religious marriage, and the sacrament of marriage. What we have heard and what we have learned is that many religious organizations wish to bestow the sacrament of marriage upon those same sex marriages. Those that do not wish to are not required to.
What we are speaking of here today is the extension of civil marriage to couples of same sex.