September/October 2004

Behind Closed Doors 0

There are people who might argue that a discussion of the same-sex marriage issue does not belong in Liberty magazine–a journal devoted to the freedom of religious expression and the constitutionally mandated principle of a separation of church and state. Of course they would have to be willing to restrict that very religious expression and

Equality And Matrimony 0

One enters the fray of the same-sex marriage debate with trepidation. The principal parties in the debate are so polarized, and the stakes seemingly so high, that anyone game enough to express an opinion either way had best be prepared to bear the brunt of brutal attacks not merely on his position but on his

Sex, Law And Politics 0

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

Canada's Justice Minister Wants to Change the Constitutional Meaning of Marriage 0
- 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
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Teaching True Values 0
- 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
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Why Silence is Not an Option 0
- 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
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