I need to offer CHP members and other defenders of marriage an explanation for something that happened April 8, 2008. Something that left not a few people gasping in (entirely appropriate) disbelief.

On that day, my friend Michael Coren had me and two other people as guests on a special edition of his talk-show on the CTS television network—a show devoted to the controversy over human rights commissions and their suppression of free speech in Canada.

The free speech problem was pretty much a secret until the Alberta Human Rights Commission and the Canadian Human Rights Commission made the tactical blunder of accepting complaints against media personalities Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn. And, in the case against Mr. Steyn, they also accepted a complaint against Maclean's magazine, owned by media baron Ted Rogers.

I used to work in the public relations business, which had an adage the CHRC should have learned: "Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel."

Heretofore, the human rights commissions had targeted Christians who had the temerity to publicly express their idea that homosexual behaviour is not praiseworthy, and should not be lauded—especially to impressionable schoolchildren. Against the bottomless resources of the CHRC (complaints are funded by you, the taxpayer), the defendants had to face the multiple-whammy of a trial in which the truth is not a defence (it says so on the CHRC web-page), the presumption of innocence has been scrapped, normal rules of evidence do not apply—and the defendant has to pay all his or her own legal costs. Oh yes: and a former Supreme Court judge has said that the standard for judgement is "the feelings of the victim."

The CHP and I are currently the subject of complaints in this Kafkaesque setting, so Michael Coren included me on the panel for his April 8 show.

In the course of that show, I attempted to tell Mr. Coren, "I don't think same-sex 'marriage' is wrong—I think it's impossible, because that's not what marriage IS!"

However, because the conversation was animated and was quickly turned to another topic, the second half of my statement was obscured by other people talking, and all the TV audience heard was the statement "I don't think same-sex 'marriage' is wrong…"

Please let me assure every Canadian who cares, that the CHP and I have not changed our minds: the very idea of same-sex "marriage" is an abomination. Those who have read Stanley Kurtz' scholarly report for the Hoover Institution, The End of Marriage in Scandinavia, about the damage caused by social acceptance of such relationships, will understand why.

For the record, let me repeat again: the CHP and I are unalterably opposed to same-sex "marriage", and we agree with the treatise written by Douglas Farrow, associate professor of Christian Thought at McGill University in Montreal: Canadians have a moral obligation not to recognize this illicit legislation.