Ontario Liberal leader backs "gays".

Toronto--Toronto's NOW Magazine (June 11-17) reported that Ontario's Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty 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 homosexual relationships with common-law status.

Such legislation would require changing the legal definition of spouse and would have wide-ranging repercussions on areas such as employment benefits and the right to adopt children.

According to 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 himself from the Church (see article "Vatican move strengthens unity" in this issue, pp.8-10).