Paul Martin Confuses Morality with Science

Prime Minister Paul Martin called on US president George Bush to listen to the “global conscience.” At issue is support for the fairy tale of the Kyoto Accord, which is supposed to fix “global warming.” Ironically, if not hypocritically, Canada’s track record on the so-called green house gases is much worse than that of the United States, though the US does not support the Kyoto Accord.

The appeal to a global conscience assumes that there is a moral question at stake. What is more, it suggests that what the majority of people want, if there is a majority supporting Kyoto, is somehow a moral standard. Martin knows well that the science of Kyoto is at best questionable, so he has to make appeal to an imaginary global conscience. On real moral issues, however, it is the US president who should be inviting the Canadian prime minister to listen to a the moral conscience of the planet. There are only four countries who have granted homosexuals the privilege of marriage. Canada recently became one of them under Paul Martin’s leadership. All other countries of the world have either denied such privilege, or are not even interested in addressing the question. On the question of homosexual marriage, there is a well-established planetary moral conscience.

Given that homosexual marriage is a veritable moral question, not a question of science, is Prime Minister Martin willing to heed on homosexual marriage to the same global conscience that he has invoked on Kyoto?

Crossposted from Civitatensis.ca