Abortion and gay marriage--Canada at the vanguard

Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae after question period today argued that two of Canada's main contributions on the world stage should be (my bolds):

"I think it has to become a stronger priority for Canadian foreign policy generally and I think we have to understand that as Canadians, that having taken such an advanced position ourselves with respect to recognizing gay relationships in the Americas, that it would be – it would be a wonderful thing if we could champion this as a priority for our foreign policy."

Now, to be fair, he was speaking about the draconian punishment Malawi inflicted on a homosexual couple. A punishment I have previously deplored on this blog. But I think one can argue against criminalization without going to the other extreme of putting a state imprimatur on gay marriage and thus undercutting the biological basis of heterosexual marriage as the best institution for the procreating and rearing of children by parents biologically related to them. The state has no right to redefine marriage as marriage pre-existed the state. But statists like Bob Rae don't care about that. The state is always coming up with some new problem to solve, and wreaking havoc in the process.

Then this, on abortion (my bolds)

We ought to be able to have a vigorous discussion about the nature of Canadian foreign policy and how our foreign policy needs to reflect the deepest values and the deepest consensus that we have developed as a society on this – on this question, the right of women to choose has been a foundation of Canadian public policy. For the last 30 years.

Abortion and gay marriage, Canada's deepest values to be the cornerstone of our foreign policy? Blech!

What unbelievable "progressive" cultural imperialism. Let's just go into some of those Catholic countries where abortion is illegal and force them to become enlightened like us, to the tune of 100,000 aborted babies a year! Oh, and let's throw in a little sex selection abortion---get rid of those baby girls. And of course we don't want to have any Down Syndrome babies. It is of course a woman's right to choose, right up until the baby exits the birth canal.

Is Bob Rae going to pick only on Malawi because it is a Christian country? The gay men just got a long prison sentence there. Will he say something about the hangings of gay men in Iran?

That's a file photo of Rae. I worked from home today.