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sioufiville suntribune thursday july 31 2003 7 roaming around yvith jim thomas when former prime minister pierre elliot trudeau spear headed the charter of rights and freedoms its doubtful even he as brilliant as he was could have envisioned the result opening a pandoras box dividing towns cities and provinces from coast to coast could this same pierreelliot trudeau who coined the phrase let government stay out of the bedrooms of the nation have imagined governments of our day entering these very same bedrooms and blessing unions of adam and steve as well as adam and eye i doubt such farreaching implications ever crossed his mind but here we are men marrying men and women mar rying women with ontario supreme court approval its enough to make oldtime traditionalists regurgitate bur red river cereal but why write about an issue so remotely related to the majority of whitchurchstouffville residents j why stir a pot boiling on the back burner for months even years because one minister had the intestinal fortitude toy stand before his congregation recently and vent his disdain over the moral shift occurring in this country rev lou geense of the stotiffville missionary church pulled ho punches he told it like it is like it has been and like it will coritin- ue to be unless we the silent majority do nothing few pastors i know of have laid it so squarely on 7 theline rxhristianity he said is not the baseline by which a gbyeriunerit runsicanada is ho longer a christian nation 11 cariadajis rip longer a religious nation the charter of righls has blown the doors vndebperitodaym pries i yvith rights are crimmals therest pfus must fight for purs 4l 11 jspeakuig to the issue at hand rev geerise said this f fight is about rhamage jbiriirigman dwpmaritogether in a union ceaniifm whoematogclearlhispersprial stand the speaker urged listeners riot ro preach tpgpvernmerit this only turns them off he said atme sametime he asked his people to contact their mp -f- for whitchurchstouffville thats bryon wilfert and tell hirri exactiyhbw you feel j iri all fairness rev geense admitted mr wilferthas alreatiyi indicated hes voting against same sex marriage legislation but dont peashamed to call wm anyway he urged 7 jre3p6meidatins mochafge toward perrnittirig sarrie- sex rnarriagesis led mainly by groups of militants bent on having their demands made law l in an effort to becoming more attuned to whats going r l hrij he said he recently viewed the gay pride parade website v hecaueditjawful 1 7 7 7 1 7 cyriics of toiirse will say the pastor while brave in 1 chopsihgp volatile aseirnon sup 1 grpuridsince few if 7anyr iirthj- saricioialhtiie 7 7hbriibsexiariesbiari iribde7 7 7 yf lltp r one to mylbwledgelwalked but several however nod 7 7ded approval as he spoke f 7 regmdless over the space of 74 years ivecpme to know 7seyerd follcsbf hornosexual and lesbian bent truth is ahdl admit this without sexual connotation two are my very best 1 friends however if they hadnt uriashamedly confessed id 7 ever have kriovvri to m 1 s 1 7- homosexuautyisvomrnop top among men of the cloth rtblmy knowledge sexual orientation is not part of a pastors yob description to date ive heard of rio one being defrocked because of it 7- be this as it may my concern relates to the very future pf the ministry inanbther regard what if heaven forbid gov erning bodies of the missionary church united church 7 baptist church presbyterian church anglican church and l so on rriandate ministers to formalize samesex marriages k mass resignations could result and probably will worse still what if government in its wisdom unilateral- ly legislates churches do the same with no right of appeal this believe it or not could also occur politics arid religion aire a bad mix rev geense contends this may be true however if current trends continue reli- i gious groups will have no say in the mattentheyll simply go with the flow 7 some denominations have already paved the way jimthonukisastoiifjyi newspapers for more than 50 years i i i i j iwrassn glazed porcelain tile imported from spain italy many designer shades to 7 x choose from 1 soft sale aipbafirtf s siiiim9f mmim mississauga 600mithoobww hejrtundliwm centre m5mmms hamiftoh w41 upper janet i nexttotibri whrtby 7 ihkbonroadpnvcrcc 401ft7hkfaonrovt plus other sjastores in montreal ottawa london 05tn cannot btoorrfctitdlrsfafcdpr nops nogs l indian kashmiri area rugs 100wool hand made no chod labour ffxff sale