SASKATOON, November 5, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Justice Donna Wilson of the Family Law Division of the Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench ruled today that the definition of marriage in Saskatchewan was unconstitutional and redefined it. “The common-law definition of marriage for civil purposes is declared to be ‘the lawful union of two persons to the exclusion of all others,’” Wilson wrote in a five-page ruling.
The order was not opposed by either the province of Saskatchewan or the federal government. Court costs totaling $10,000 were ordered paid to the five homosexual activist couples who brought the case forward: Erin Scriven and Lisa Stumborg, Lenore Swystun and Kelley Moore, James Hein-Blackmore and William Hein-Blackmore, Nicole White and Julie Richards, and Martin Bonneville and Ted Atkins.
Quebec, British Columbia, Ontario, the Yukon, Manitoba and Nova Scotia have already been forced by other law-usurping judges to redefine marriage. Meanwhile, homosexual activists continue to target other provinces with court action, rather than act through the elected legislatures which they know would vote against them in deference to strong public opinion against homosexual ‘marriage’. Two homosexual activist couples are challenging the marriage law in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. jhw