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Article: Supreme Court clears way for same-sex 'marriage".(Canada)
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- Catholic Insight
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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On December 9, 2004, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the government has the right to legalize same-sex "marriage," but did not say whether the traditional definition of marriage is unconstitutional. Among organizations that criticized the Supreme Court's ruling were the following.
Centre for Cultural Renewal (Ottawa)
Noting that the federal government's failure to appeal lower appeals courts' decisions led the way to creating a "right" to same-sex "marriage," the Centre's lain Benson concludes that "the government has played fast and loose with legal procedure to ensure that same sex 'marriage" occurs in Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada has ...