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anti-gay letters to a local newspaper.
Chris Kempling is set to he decertified for a
third province has ordered the federal gov
period of one month, hut
ernment to legalize ordinary marriage for
the punishment could he
same-sex couples. The British Columbia Court
of Appeal, the province’s top court, ruled unan- j delayed while he appeals
imously May 1 that restricting marriage to “one
to
the
provincial
man and one woman” is unconstitutional.
Supreme Court. He says
his rights to freedom of
The court gave the government a deadline
expression and religion
of July 12, 2004, to change the law. If the gov
ernment does not act, the court itself will legal
have been violated.
ize same-sex marriage beginning that day.
The college ruled that
“Civil marriage should adapt to contempo
Kempling’s “discriminato
ry” and “derogatory” state
rary notions of marriage as an institution in a
society which recognizes the rights of homosex
ments constitute un
ual persons to nondiscriminatory treatment,”
becoming conduct that conflicts with the educa
Justice Kenneth Mackenzie wrote. T h * ruling
tion system s comrpitment to equality, dignity and
respect for gay people.
overturned a lower court decision declaring that
the main goal of marriage is pnx:reation.
B E L G IU M
“I find that prcx:reation.. .resulting from sexu
elgium
will
become
the second nation in
al intercourse between a husband and wife can
no longer he regarded as a sufficiently pressing
the world to let gays marry under the same
and substantial objective” to justify discriminat
laws as straights June 14.
ing against same-sex couples, Justice Jo-Ann
Brussels City Hall is prepared to conduct the
Prowse wrote. “Same-sex couples can ‘have’ and
first weddings at midnight in its ornate, gothic
wedding hall, hut activists have been unable to
raise children, given technological developments
find rwo people who are willing to get married in
and changes in the law permitting adoption.”
Pro-gay marriage decisions handed down by
the glare of an international media frenzy. “No
lower-level courts in the provinces of Quebec
couple has been found that is willing to subject
themselves to a lot of worldwide publicity,” said
and Ontario are being appealed by the federal
government. A decision is expected this summer.
a reliable source who preferred not to he named.
Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms
W hen the Netherlands became the first
prohibits discrimination that cannot he
nation to allow full gay marriage April 1,2001,
“demonstrably justified in a free and demcx:rat- ! four couples tied the knot in the Amsterdam
ic society.”
City Council chambers at the stroke of mid
night with the mayor officiating. Belgium’s first
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same-sex weddings might take place without
wo of the three candidates for leadership
any htxxpla at all.
of the Liberal Party support opening full
marriage to same-sex couples. The winner will
FIJI
replace Jean Chretien as prime minister when
ays are evil and sinful, the Methodist
he steps down in early 2004.
Church of F iji’s media officer said
Deputy Prime Minister John Manley and
April 26.
Canadian Heritage Minister Sheila Copps pro
“We as the church love these people, hut as
pose letting gays marry just like straights do. The
for the practice, we are against it,” the Rev.
front-runner, former Minister of Finance Paul
Iliesa Naival said. “It’s very important that we
Martin says Canada could consider following
stick to our biblical beliefs on these issues based
the lead of the Quebec province, which registers
in the Holy Scriptures.”
straight and gay partnerships hut leaves matri
mony to the churches; however, he promised
M E X IC O
nor to appeal any court nilings ordering legaliza
exico’s Congress banned discrimination
tion of gay marriage. The federal government is
based on “sexual preferences” in mid-
appealing decisions in Ontario and Quebec that
April, according to the International Gay &
found the ban on gay marriage unconstitutional.
Lesbian Human Rights Commission.
Only two nations let gay people wed exact
Article 4 of the Federal Law to Prevent and
ly like straight people do, under the ordinary
Eliminate Discrimination also bans bias based on
marriage laws: the Netherlands and, beginning
ethnic or national origin, sex, age, disability,
in June, Belgium. Numerous nations, mostly in
social or economic status, health, pregnancy, lan
guage, religion, opinion and civil status. It further
Europe, have comprehensive gay partnership
laws granting up to 99 percent of the rights and
bans discrimination based on an individual’s deci
obligations of marriage.
sion to “openly acknowledge one’s sexual prefer
ence,” he that via “dress, talk [or] mannerisms.”
The law applies in the areas of education,
he British Columbia College of Teachers,
employment, medical care, social security ben
the province’s educator certification and
efits, public services, private institutions pro
regulation body, will suspend an instructor from
viding public services, reproductive rights,
the south-central town of Quesnel for writing
property rights, sports, cultural and recreation
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