Faith, Reverence and Society0

• September/October 2004
• September 1, 2004

Civil Rights And Homosexual Rights – A Flawed Analogy0

• September/October 2004
• September 1, 2004

Advocates of the homosexual rights movement repeatedly draw an analogy between their own struggle and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, in which African-Americans worked to gain the rights enjoyed by other Americans but denied to them on account of their skin color. Just as African-Americans struggled to gain equal rights and

Why Silence is Not an Option0

• September/October 2004
• September 1, 2004

Religious communities that view sexual relations outside of the traditional marriage of one man and one woman as immoral and a "sin" ought to prepare for the greatest assault on religious freedom in recent memory. The assault will come from two fronts. One front will be external. As those in power begin taking a sympathetic

Teaching True Values0

• September/October 2004
• September 1, 2004

Perhaps it is not surprising that the classroom has become the battlefield of hot debate over public values. Schools, whether private or public, have often been the site of contention over values. They are the vehicles through which a society passes on its values and customs. As La Forest stated in Ross v. New Brunswick

Canada's Justice Minister Wants to Change the Constitutional Meaning of Marriage0

• September/October 2004
• September 1, 2004

On June 10, 2003, Chief Justice Roy McMurtry, of the Court of Appeal of Ontario, issued a judgment ordering the government of Canada to recognize that the word "marriage" in Canada's Constitution must include both heterosexual and homosexual couples. In response, Canada's justice minister, Martin Cauchon, decided to introduce an amendment to Canadian law to

Sex, Law And Politics0

• September/October 2004
• September 1, 2004

The debate about same-sex "marriage" is a quintessential example of competing values. In some ways it is almost a textbook example of the competition among politics, ethics, morality, and religion. The gay rights movement did not start in 1982, but for our purposes we reached a significant Canadian milestone in that year. Parliament passed the