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The tal cable channels Sept. 28. case was launched by les During an ongoing free pre bian judge A nna-M arie view period showcasing all de Vos, who adopted two of the new digital channels, children six years ago and two cable companies had wanted her partner, Su been forcing customers to sign up for PrideVision TV zanne du Toit, to be able to the same. rather than making it auto matically available like the r» • j ■» t * • • , . . , T he Sept. 28 ruling PrideVision airs gay television shows w i|| no, wke effect until it others. j, confirmed by the Con- The Canadian Radio- such as Metrosexuality Television and Telecommunications Commis stitutional Court, which du Toit said should be sion told Shaw Cable and Star Choice to a formality. South Africa’s post-apartheid con unblock PrideVision immediately so it automat stitution was the first in the world to ban dis ically appears on every subscriber’s television for crimination based on sexual orientation. the duration of the preview period, which ends in early December. Shaw communications head Jim Shaw had told the Canadian Press wire serv he Bible’s determ inations regarding “n at ural” and “unnatural” aren’t worth much, ice that customers would “revolt” if they were forced to receive gay programming along with former A nglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu other “Category 1” channels said Sept. 30. Addressing a con guaranteed delivery by cable and satellite television regulations. ference on hom o phobia in Cape Town, he said: “I want to say sorry to he British Columbia Su you and all the oth preme Court ruled Oct. 3 that Canada’s ban on same-sex ers who have been made to suffer so marriage is discriminatory but horribly. We in the permissible. church have a great “T he objective of limiting deal to answer for. marriage to opposite-sex cou ples is sufficiently im portant to Sometimes the Bible says these things are warrant infringing the rights of unnatural. But, I ask, the petitioners,” Justice lan Pit- unnatural to whom? field ruled. “T he gain to society from the preservation of the 1 support and firmly deep-rooted and fundam ental stand w ith those legal institution of opposite-sex who say, ‘We are as Desmond Tutu we are and do n ’t marriage outweighs the detri mental effect of the law on the petitioners.” want to apologize for th at.’ ” The 16 plaintiffs and their lawyers were taken aback. FINLAND “Our clients knew when they started that inland is the latest European nation to pass this would be a case that would go on for five a comprehensive registered partnership law years,” lawyer Barbara Findlay told the C anadi for same-sex couples. an Press wire service. “But the anguish of being Parliament approved the measure 99-84. A told that we recognize that you’re being discrim total of 15 members skipped the Sept. 28 vote, inated against— but th at discrim ination is and one cast a blank ballot. acceptable— is very difficult to describe.” T he law treats registered same-sex couples Plaintiff Shane McCloskey told the National the same as married couples except in the areas Post: “It is disheartening. In our minds it was a of adoption and name changes. The measure pretty simple case. O ne of the main things that will take effect in a few months. we were arguing was that by not being allowed “This at long last gives gay couples the rights to get married it was discrimination. The ironic they deserve,” said Rainer H iltunen, head of the part of the judgment is that the judge agreed National Organization for Sexual Equality. “But with us hut said that is justifiable. That is really it’s a compromise, and we are disappointed that hard to take. N one of us think that discrimina it doesn’t secure the rights of children in a gay tion is justifiable in any circumstance.” marriage, because they can only be registered to T he plaintiffs will appeal to the British one parent.” Columbia Court of Appeal and, if necessary, to the Supreme Court of Canada. “This is just the INTERNATIONAL beginning,” plaintiff Robin Roberts said. he Council of Europe’s Committee of M in T he ruling did have a silver lining, the plain isters issued a statement Sept. 21 saying it tiffs said, in that it marked the first time a C ana regrets anti-gay discrimination and violence still dian court admitted the ban on same-sex mar occur in Europe and urging member countries to riage is indeed discriminatory. stamp them out. “I am very encouraged,” plaintiff Tess Healy The committee, the council’s executive arm, said. “T he court has made a groundbreaking is composed of the foreign ministers (or their decision in finding that it is contrary to the deputies) of 43 nations. It was the council’s first charter to exclude us from marriage.... We statement in support of gay rights in its 50-year believe that we are right, and we are in this case history. for the long haul.” “Homosexuality can still give rise to power The court relied on Section 1 of the Charter ful cultural reactions in some societies or sectors of Rights and Freedoms to hold that it is dis thereof, but this is not a valid reason for govern criminatory yet legally acceptable to exclude gay ments or parliaments to remain passive," the men and lesbians from marriage. Section 1 per statement said. “O n the contrary, this fact only mits breaches of the charter when the breach is underlines the need to promote greater toler justifiable. ance in matters of sexual orientation.” Karu.ui Hick.' 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