Friday December 15, 2000
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SUPREME COURT UNDERMINES CANADIAN OBSCENITY LAW
OTTAWA, Dec 15, 2000 (LSN.ca) – The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favour of a bookstore catering to homosexuals whose owners complained of being discriminated against by customs officials. The store’s imported obscene material was confiscated at the border. In the Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada ruling, issued this morning, the court sidestepped the issue of the obscenity law, but did say that the enforcement of the law by custom officials was problematic. They ruled that the onus of proof for obscenity must be on the crown. The Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium was awarded all court costs.
Commenting on the decision, Gwen Landolt, a lawyer for REAL Women Canada told LifeSite that the ruling sidestepped the obscenity law since the justices knew that Canadians would not tolerate their striking it down. Rather, says Mrs. Landolt, the “activist” justices have blasted customs officials for “discriminating” against the homosexual community. While the ruling does little in fact, in practice “it means customs will not be able to stop the flood of obscene pornographic material into Canada if it is classified as homosexual porn”. This is because the Supreme Court loss will have exhausted the government’s efforts in this regard.
Landolt says the ruling seems to suggest that the “standard of tolerance” (except for porn with “crime, horror, cruelty and violence”) applied to heterosexual pornography cannot be used to determine homosexual porn obscenity. The Supreme Court has once again catered to their favored special interest group – porn-seeking homosexuals. “With this ruling the Supreme Court has undermined the obscenity law in Canada,” Brian Rushfelt of the Canada Family Action Coalition told LifeSite. Speaking of the Supreme Court justices, Landolt said that she was concerned that “the destiny of our nation lies in the hands of these social engineers.”
See the Supreme Court’s ruling at:
https://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/csc-scc/en/rec/html/sisters.en…
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