"...it is against the wishes of the majority of canadians. at least 63 to 65% of canadians are opposed to it." But in the same post: "This was a clear case of politicians not having the guts to go against the opinion of a percentage of the public."

The logic of that one escapes me. Voting for something that isn't too popular is a mark of lack of guts?

Seems to me a lot of fuss over a linguistic nicety - whether "civil union" means the same as "marital union". I can't really see why anyone should get exercised about it either way.

When I was a kid I remember we used sometimes to have sandwiches made of biscuit between slices of bread, and it was called "matrimony". It never occurred to us to ask whether the biscuits and the bread were boys or girls.

As the actress Mrs Patrick Campbell famously put it a century ago "I don't care what they do, so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."