Fervently Orthodox organizations in two Canadian provinces are urging legislators to reject a bill that would recognize same-sex unions as marriages. An Ontario court ruling recently struck down Canada’s longstanding, traditional definition of marriage, and courts in Ontario already have sanctioned same-sex marriages. “Our colleagues in Toronto and Montreal have done a great service in speaking out as forcefully as they did,” said Rabbi David Zwiebel, spokesman for Agudath Israel of America.
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