angelo writes: "Religious organizations who refuse to perform same-sex marriages...."

Angelo, our current law states that religious organizations are NOT obliged to perform same-sex marriages, just as they are NOT obliged to perform marriages for divorced people (some Catholic churches), and so forth. Our constitution protects freedom of religion... shocking, as that may seem!

Now, if the Tories had resolved to state that a non-religious marriage commissioner could refuse to perform a same-sex marriage, then I think this could be grounds for legitimate discrimination, but let's temper all of this anti-religious zeal a bit... as the last time I checked, Canada was a free country, where one is free to choose, free to be gay, and yes, free to be religious if that's what gets them through life.

Provided that the religious right is not stomping on the rights of others to co-exist, then why do certain politicians continually stomp on the rights of those who choose to be religious?