Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
Tobias G. Smollett

"A sleeping giant has been awoken by Canada's debate about same-sex civil marriage rights: the Christian right. Their engagement in the political arena threatens to change a lot in Canadian politics over the next generation. Perhaps -- if
we don't figure out how to deal with this -- this emerging religious extremism will wreak the same havoc upon civil debate in this country as in the U.S., where religious extremists hijacked the Republican party and re-wrote the nation's agenda in biblical terms."

-- Gareth Kirkby, managing editor of the Ottawa, Ontario,
gay newspaper Capital Xtra!, writing in the July 14 issue.