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Why I support gay marriage bill (by Ken Dryden, MP)
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Aug 04, 2005 04:25pm |
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| Category | Editorial |
| News Date | Friday, June 24, 2005 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | When you are a regular citizen, you have the right not to have a public opinion. You have the right to remain quiet, even to have no private opinion at all. You are allowed to say, "I don't know." To be unsure enough even to decide not to make up your own mind, let alone the minds of others.
As a Member of Parliament, I lose that right. I am supposed to know, or I am at least supposed to know, my own mind. I have to stand and be counted because a decision must be made — yes or no. And the public has the right to know what I decide, so they can decide about me.
I bring no special expertise to the issue of same-sex marriage. I went to church as a child. I loved the hymns and, at times, the feeling of church, the quiet and community of it, the getting-dressed-up, family-together niceness of it. |
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