Six years after Canada afforded same-sex couples the right to legally marry, our social mores have remained intact. Despite some dramatic predictions from naysayers, Canadians have not started embracing bestiality and paedophilia, nor have heterosexual unions suffered (although, as the author points out, how gay marriage might have hurt conventional marriages is pretty unclear).

At the age of 15, Rick, who had always been an avid sports fan, decided he wanted to participate in a five-mile run in support of a lacrosse player who had been paralyzed in an accident. Dick, who was not a runner at the time, agreed to push his son for the five miles in his wheelchair.