15- 20,000 Attend Historic March for Traditional Marriage in Canada

Teresa Neumann : Apr 15, 2005
Life Site News

LifeSiteNews.com reporters at the March interviewed leaders responsible for bringing groups in the thousands to the March. Rev. Dominic Tse of the Chinese Christian community represented a group of over two to three thousand people attending the March. "The Chinese community is solidly against bill C-38 because marriage is such a central institution for the Chinese culture in general and we don't want the government or courts to touch this definition of marriage," he said.

Sikh leaders told LifeSiteNews.com that some 500 members of their community would be participating the in March. Hajeed Singarewal, from the group Sikh Humanity, told LifeSiteNews.com they were at the March to "oppose this bill, because it is against nature, against society, against humanity, it is very dangerous to the future generations."

Sammy Caoud of the Coalition of Muslim organizations, a coalition of 70 mosques and Muslim organizations in the Greater Toronto Area, told LifeSiteNews.com "we are against bill C-38 because it tries to redefine 2,000 years of the definition of the marriage, we object to that based on our religion and on the common moral sense." Caoud said the numbers of the Islamic community expected at the March were anywhere from two to five thousand.

Several dozen members of the Knight of Columbus in full regalia, along with a marching band, led the huge crowd in the March from the Supreme Court to Parliament Hill.

Media bias was seen to be a sore spot for the massive crowd as the most vigorous cheering came when Presbyterian Minister Tristan Emmanuel of Equipping Christians for the Public Square addressed the media, telling them: "I have a message for you...I challenge you to be the MEDIA OF THE PEOPLE!!!!...I challenge you to report that thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands showed up on this historic day to defend MARRIAGE!"