I welcome alternate views and comments. I wrote this a number of years ago.
Political Parties should be clear that they do not support or condemn Gay Marriage. Instead accept that freedom is entrenched in the Canadian Constitution.
When taken a political stand on religious issues it is very important to understand religion. There are many problems caused by mixing religion and politics. We only need to look around the world today to see these problem. For example, fighting non-believers so that believers can live according to their understanding of the commands of God, is still fighting. There are many examples today and throughout history of where religion has been manipulated and used as a political tool. In fact this is not a new problem.
About 2000 years ago, many Jewish leaders at the time freely used religion as a political tool. Christ clearly condemns them for doing so. Christ reaches out to everyone, not asking them to follow simple rules, but to search for the truth with help of the holy spirit. People who use religion as a tool for political gains as is in the case of gay marriage, stem cell research, etc, are the same people that Christ spoke against 2000 yrs ago. Remember the final temptation of Christ was to fall down before the devil and the devil would give all kingdoms. Unfortunately everyone who uses religion as a political tool does exactly that.
More to the point, a good tree bares good fruit. Every ideology and religion can be judged on this base. Neither the Bible nor any other religious book is about science and if it claims to be, it is a lie. Evolution vs. Creationism is strictly a political issue and not a religious issue. In fact creations evolve to meet ever changing challenges. Lesser things are simply manufactured. Abortion is rarely mentioned in the bible. The bible does not promote or condone a gay life style.
Christ teaches us not to use religion for political gains. For this reason political Parties should not support or condemn Gay Marriage. Instead should support the freedoms is entrenched into our Canadian Constitution.
Green Party candidate Richmond Delta
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