Ghost of a flea

Set aside the legal debate, and ask the very simple question. What moral or political authority do we have to deny gay Canadians the issuance of a government marriage license?

The answer in my mind is clear. We have no such right at all because whether two people of the same sex marry, and how and whether their gender enters into the relationship, is none of the government's business, providing they do no harm to anyone else.

"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." - John Stuart Mill

I am a conservative, and this is the philosophy that guides me in public life.