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Wednesday January 30, 2002
LAW COMMISSION OF CANADA ENDORSES HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE
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OTTAWA, January 30, 2002 (LSN.ca) - A tax-funded commission which advises the Liberal government on law reform has come out in favour of homosexual marriage. In a report submitted to the Minister of Justice on December 21, the Law Commission of Canada said, "There is no justification for maintaining the current distinctions between same-sex and heterosexual conjugal unions in the light of current understandings of the state's interests in marriage."
The report, "Beyond Conjugality" says, "If governments are to continue to maintain an institution called marriage, they cannot do so in a discriminatory fashion." In recommendation 33 of the report, the Law Commission suggests: "Parliament and provincial/territorial legislatures should move toward removing from their laws the restrictions on marriages between persons of the same sex."
The Commission suggests diffusion of opposition to homosexual marriage "by first enacting a registration scheme to permit same-sex couples to have access to a legal framework to organize their affairs and, as the population becomes more receptive to it or as they become pressed by international or judicial developments, governments could then pass legislation that would allow same-sex couples to marry."
See the chapter in the Commission report advocating homosexual marriage:
http://www.lcc.gc.ca/en/themes/pr/cpra/chap4.html#131e
See the whole report at:
http://www.lcc.gc.ca/en/themes/pr/cpra/report.html
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