Post by ADH7901 on Oct 10, 2003 12:29:25 GMT -5
Cass, your country rocks!! LOL 
...now if only ours would get some common sense... 
haha
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Canada high court refuses marriage appeal
Thu Oct 9, 7:08 PM ET
SUMMARY: The Canadian Supreme Court wasted no time in dismissing an effort to reopen the Ontario marriage case that legalized same-sex marriage in the province last June.
The Canadian Supreme Court wasted no time in dismissing an effort to reopen the Ontario marriage case that legalized same-sex marriage in the province last June.
Two conservative groups asked the Court last Monday to allow them to intervene in the case and appeal the pro-gay ruling to the Supreme Court. On Thursday, the panel unanimously rejected the effort to gain standing, issuing a terse two-line Order of Motion under the signatures of all five justices.
"The motions to quash the leave applications are granted. The motions to be added as parties are dismissed."
The Association for Marriage and the Family in Ontario, and the Interfaith Coalition on Marriage and the Family had tried to convince the high court that the question of same-sex marriage was of such profound importance that the justices should take the rare step of letting third parties appeal the decision. Either the government of Ontario or the Canadian federal government could have appealed the June 10 ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeals within 30 days of the decision. But neither party wished to challenge the decision, and within a week the federal government announced plans to legalize same-sex marriage throughout the country.
A same-sex marriage bill has since been drafted by the governing Liberal Party, and awaits a vote in a divided Parliament, as well as advisory constitutional review by the Supreme Court next spring.
Meanwhile, the province of British Columbia has also legalized same-sex marriage. The two provinces where marriage is now legal are home to half the Canadian population.
Gay activists at Equal Marriage Canada hailed the ruling on their Web site.
"The groups were not even a direct party in the lower courts, but they somehow hoped to increase their status at the Supreme Court of Canada where they served their foul brew of poison on Oct. 6," the activists wrote. "The court swallowed none of it." Equal Marriage described the petitioners as "misguided meddlers and bigots, a gang of religious and secular extremists."
;D ;D
...now if only ours would get some common sense... 
haha======
Canada high court refuses marriage appeal
Thu Oct 9, 7:08 PM ET
SUMMARY: The Canadian Supreme Court wasted no time in dismissing an effort to reopen the Ontario marriage case that legalized same-sex marriage in the province last June.
The Canadian Supreme Court wasted no time in dismissing an effort to reopen the Ontario marriage case that legalized same-sex marriage in the province last June.
Two conservative groups asked the Court last Monday to allow them to intervene in the case and appeal the pro-gay ruling to the Supreme Court. On Thursday, the panel unanimously rejected the effort to gain standing, issuing a terse two-line Order of Motion under the signatures of all five justices.
"The motions to quash the leave applications are granted. The motions to be added as parties are dismissed."
The Association for Marriage and the Family in Ontario, and the Interfaith Coalition on Marriage and the Family had tried to convince the high court that the question of same-sex marriage was of such profound importance that the justices should take the rare step of letting third parties appeal the decision. Either the government of Ontario or the Canadian federal government could have appealed the June 10 ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeals within 30 days of the decision. But neither party wished to challenge the decision, and within a week the federal government announced plans to legalize same-sex marriage throughout the country.
A same-sex marriage bill has since been drafted by the governing Liberal Party, and awaits a vote in a divided Parliament, as well as advisory constitutional review by the Supreme Court next spring.
Meanwhile, the province of British Columbia has also legalized same-sex marriage. The two provinces where marriage is now legal are home to half the Canadian population.
Gay activists at Equal Marriage Canada hailed the ruling on their Web site.
"The groups were not even a direct party in the lower courts, but they somehow hoped to increase their status at the Supreme Court of Canada where they served their foul brew of poison on Oct. 6," the activists wrote. "The court swallowed none of it." Equal Marriage described the petitioners as "misguided meddlers and bigots, a gang of religious and secular extremists."
;D ;D
