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BY LifeSiteNews.com Canada Ruled By Unelected Supreme Court OTTAWA, May 20 (LSN) - This morning the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the MvH case that Ontario’s Family Law Act discriminates against practicing homosexual couples by not allowing them to receive spousal benefits. It ruled that because the homosexual couple may be in a long-term dependency relationship that they should be entitled to benefits under section 29 of the act since that section has already offered spousal benefits beyond married people to common law couples. Gwen Landolt, a lawyer working for REAL Women of Canada told LifeSite that although this ruling does not redefine spouse or family, homosexualist activists are spinning the story to suit their ends. Confirming Landolt’s observation, the CBC report on the ruling was entitled “Supreme Court ruling redefines family.” The CBC went on to inaccurately claim that the ruling “radically alters the way family is defined in Canada - “spouse” now includes same-sex partners.” Supreme Court Justices Cory and Iacobucci wrote in the MVH ruling: “We emphasize that the definition of “spouse” found in s. 1(1) of the FLA, and which applies to other parts of the FLA, includes only married persons and is not at issue in this appeal.” The ruling applies only to the Ontario government and must be implemented within six months if it is not rejected by use of the notwithstanding clause in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Landolt said that the Ontario government could also avoid the situation by restricting spousal benefits only to married couples. Ontario PC Premier Mike Harris told the press this morning that the province would abide by the court’s ruling. Since the Liberals and NDP parties have vowed to implement homosexualist legislation, the only provincial party in Ontario which defends the historic definition of the family is the Family Coalition Party. Landolt warned that the decision was released at this time in order to coincide with the federal bill C-78 to be voted on this Tuesday (May 25). The bill proposes to give same-sex benefits to practicing homosexuals employed by the government. Jim Hughes, national leader of Campaign Life Coalition commented that this ruling is yet another affront to democracy. “Where government finds they cannot pass controversial issues through Parliament they hand off the dirty work to the unaccountable courts,” he told LifeSite. “The pattern is clear now: the courts are the preferred vehicle for major social restructuring of Canada in a direction that the people don’t want to go. First with abortion and child pornography, now with homosexuality, what is next? Euthanasia, genetic engineering of human beings, pedophilia and much more.” The ruling is available at: http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/doc/csc-scc/en/rec/texte/m&h.en.txt Canada Ruled By Unelected Supreme Court OTTAWA, May 20 (LSN) - This morning the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the MvH case that Ontario’s Family Law Act discriminates against practicing homosexual couples by not allowing them to receive spousal benefits. It ruled that because the homosexual couple may be in a long-term dependency relationship that they should be entitled to benefits under section 29 of the act since that section has already offered spousal benefits beyond married people to common law couples. Gwen Landolt, a lawyer working for REAL Women of Canada told LifeSite that although this ruling does not redefine spouse or family, homosexualist activists are spinning the story to suit their ends. Confirming Landolt’s observation, the CBC report on the ruling was entitled “Supreme Court ruling redefines family.” The CBC went on to inaccurately claim that the ruling “radically alters the way family is defined in Canada - “spouse” now includes same-sex partners.” Supreme Court Justices Cory and Iacobucci wrote in the MVH ruling: “We emphasize that the definition of “spouse” found in s. 1(1) of the FLA, and which applies to other parts of the FLA, includes only married persons and is not at issue in this appeal.” The ruling applies only to the Ontario government and must be implemented within six months if it is not rejected by use of the notwithstanding clause in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Landolt said that the Ontario government could also avoid the situation by restricting spousal benefits only to married couples. Ontario PC Premier Mike Harris told the press this morning that the province would abide by the court’s ruling. Since the Liberals and NDP parties have vowed to implement homosexualist legislation, the only provincial party in Ontario which defends the historic definition of the family is the Family Coalition Party. Landolt warned that the decision was released at this time in order to coincide with the federal bill C-78 to be voted on this Tuesday (May 25). The bill proposes to give same-sex benefits to practicing homosexuals employed by the government. Jim Hughes, national leader of Campaign Life Coalition commented that this ruling is yet another affront to democracy. “Where government finds they cannot pass controversial issues through Parliament they hand off the dirty work to the unaccountable courts,” he told LifeSite. “The pattern is clear now: the courts are the preferred vehicle for major social restructuring of Canada in a direction that the people don’t want to go. First with abortion and child pornography, now with homosexuality, what is next? Euthanasia, genetic engineering of human beings, pedophilia and much more.” The ruling is available at: http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/doc/csc-scc/en/rec/texte/m&h.en.txt http://www.lifesitenews.com/resources/supreme-court-rules-for-same-sex-benefits/

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