Canada: Law Professor Warns Conservatives Not to Mess With Gay Marriage LawJan 20th, 2012The Conservatives are being warned to back off their plan to fix Canada's same-sex marriage law or risk making it more discriminatory.
The admonition comes from Kathleen Lahey, a law professor at Queen's University who was legal counsel in the same-sex marriage litigation that led to the existing Civil Marriage Act.
It follows a promise Justice Minister Rob Nicholson made... read_more Inside the Controversy Over Canadian Marriage Law and Foreign CouplesJan 13th, 2012
This week's media meltdown over same-sex marriage for foreign tourists was one of the more disgraceful episodes in the long history of phoney controversies in this country: a toxic mix of shrewd lawyering, shoddy reporting and partisan opportunism, all without the slightest reference to the relevant, and easily obtainable, facts.
The debacle began with a front-page screamer in Thursday morning's Globe... read_more Canadian Government Backtracking on Invalidation of Foreign Same Sex WeddingsJan 13th, 2012
The Canadian Minister Of Justice, Rob Nicholson, on Thursday afternoon announced that the Canadian government will re-work the current marriage law to allow non-resident couples married in Canada to obtain divorces, and in a statement said, "I want to be very clear that the government has no intention of reopening the debate on the definition of marriage."
The statement comes in... read_more Canada: Conservative Government Invalidates 5,000 Same Sex MarriagesJan 12th, 2012
The Harper government has served notice that thousands of same-sex couples who flocked to Canada from abroad since 2004 to get married are not legally wed.
But speaking in Halifax Thursday, the Prime Minister said the issue was not on the agenda for his majority Conservatives. "We have no intention of further re-opening or opening this issue," Stephen Harper told reporters... read_more Canada: Liberals Warn of Danger to Marriage EqualityDec 13th, 2011Jean Chretien is warning Liberals that gun control and the Kyoto accord are dead because of Stephen Harper's Tories, darkly noting that same-sex marriage and abortion rights could be next on the Conservative government's chopping block. He even raises the return of the death penalty as a possibility.
="Unless we are bold. Unless we seize the moment. Everything we built will... read_more New Map Shows Canadian Supporters, Opponents of Gay MarriageDec 12th, 2011
The more yellow an area is, the greater the opposition to same-sex marriage. The reverse is true for gray areas. Keep in mind that some of the huge areas that appear to be largely anti-gay are virtually unpopulated.
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