re: Let MPs decide, Published in National Post 14 December 2004

I had two issues with Vic Toews' letter. First, I can't agree that MPs should be deciding who is and is not married. "Such a fundamental matter of social policy" should be left to community organizations and individuals with as little involvement from the state as possible.

Second, what about all the garbage collectors, doctors, file clerks and mandarins who "have religious concerns about same-sex marriages" that Mr. Toews leaves out of his letter? Public servants should serve the public equally regardless of prejudice -- especially justices and teachers. A public service that enfranchised anyone's right to discriminate against anyone else, as Mr. Toews' letter imagines it, would be an unmitigated disaster.