Ontario Liberal leader backs "gays".Toronto--Toronto's NOW Magazine (June 11-17) reported that Ontario's Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP (born July 19, 1955, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer and politician and, since October 23, 2003, Premier of Ontario. He is the twenty-fourth premier of Ontario, and the second Roman Catholic to hold this office. has reaffirmed his party's commitment to amend provincial law and grant homosexuals adoption rights. Speaking to the Fraternity, a "gay" professional organization, McGuinty stated that his party, if successful in the next election, would draft legislation which would equate e·quate v. e·quat·ed, e·quat·ing, e·quates v.tr. 1. To make equal or equivalent. 2. To reduce to a standard or an average; equalize. 3. homosexual relationships with common-law status. Such legislation would require changing the legal definition of spouse and would have wide-ranging repercussions repercussions npl → répercussions fpl repercussions npl → Auswirkungen pl on areas such as employment benefits and the right to adopt children. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the report, McGuinty, a Catholic, also agrees with a suggestion that the Catholic School system should not be permitted to fire "gay" (referring to practising homosexual) teachers. (Source: The Christian Herald, Summer 1998.) Earlier, on December 2, 1996, on the subject of abortion, McGuinty declared: "I am not prepared to let any one religion impose its beliefs on the rest of the population. I believe in a woman's right to choose." (See Catholic Insight, April 1997, p. 12.) If Mr. McGuinty believes in the moral right of women to choose an abortion, he is no longer a Catholic but has severed sev·er v. sev·ered, sev·er·ing, sev·ers v.tr. 1. To set or keep apart; divide or separate. 2. To cut off (a part) from a whole. 3. himself from the Church (see article "Vatican move strengthens unity" in this issue, pp.8-10). |
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