Alberta same-sex bill blocked by opposition

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Alberta's opposition parties made good on a promise Monday to delay debate on a Tory private member's bill that would have allowed commissioners to refuse to perform same-sex marriages.

Speaker Ken Kowalski chastised opposition members for eating up the time allotted for debate with procedural matters, killing backbencher Ted Morton's controversial Bill 208.

"I know what's transpired today," Kowalski told the assembly.

"There's no hope in hell this afternoon that any private member's bill is coming up."

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2006/08/28/bill208-reading.html

[Bassic]

1. Boo fucking hoo asshole.

Poor little Tories. The mean opposition is going to prevent them from trampling on someones rights. That's just so mean, you know?