Polygamy battle continues in Canada
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 3/6/2009 5:40:00 AMBookmark and Share

Three Canadian organizations fear that Canada will soon legalize polygamy.

 

PolygamyThe Canada Family Action Coalition (CFAC) has joined the Institute for Canadian Values and the Muslim Canadian Congress to issue a news release called "Polygamy - The Road to Fiscal, Legal, and Social Chaos." A poll conducted by Compass Research for CFAC shows that 85 percent of Canadians do not want the government to legalize polygamy.
 
Executive director of CFAC Brian Rushfeldt says the poll is in response to a court case in British Columbia in which two men are challenging the polygamy ban based on the fact that Canada has already legalized homosexual "marriage."
 
"We said this from day one. If we destroy the foundational premise of marriage as one man and one woman and open it up to any two people, which is to appease the homosexuals," he notes, "then we're going to have other groups and others forms of relationship using the same argument that the homosexuals did."
 
Rushfeldt believes that would make it impossible to set any parameters for marriage. "Are they going to say one man and ten women or one man and 20 women? Then the women are going to say what about one woman and 20 men?" he contends. "And so we will virtually put ourselves in a position where we cannot put a definition on marriage, and therefore marriage will no longer exist in the law."
 
The pro-family leader does not expect a ruling on this case until sometime in the fall.

 

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