What students are talking about today (November 7th edition)
Trump is mad, pot is legal & U. Manitoba's "racialized rep."
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View ArticleWhy millennials support marriage equality
Socially conscious artists, Obama have helped the cause
View Article‘I take full responsibility’
A day after the Jason Kenney’s press secretary said “the minister’s signature isn’t on any decision note or anywhere else,” Mr. Kenney rose during Question Period and said, “I take full responsibility...
View ArticleAnd now a word from Mark Tewksbury
Since he has become, if indirectly, part of this unfolding discussion, I asked Mark Tewksbury if he might have something to add. Last night, he emailed along the following. “As proud as I am to be...
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Making their bed
Photograph by Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press The British Columbia government’s decision to test the legality of Canada’s 120-year-old polygamy law led to a shocking revelation for Karen and her two...
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It’s the last closet on the right
Photograph by Brian Baer/ Zuma/ Keystone Press For his entire career, California’s Bible belt state Sen. Roy Ashburn was best known for sound bites like this one, dating to 2005. At a rally he...
View ArticleThe supposed case against activist judges
When Charles McVety, president of Canada Christian College, held a news conference on Parliament Hill this morning to raise the alarm about what he apparently views as an arrogantly aggressive Supreme...
View ArticleCalifornia judge strikes down gay marriage ban
A federal court judge in California has ruled that Proposition 8, banning gay marriage in the state, is unconstitutional. Two years ago, the law against gay marriage won in a statewide referendum, but...
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An unlikely conspirator in Prop 8′s murder
Yesterday afternoon a federal court struck down California Proposition 8, the successful ballot initiative that had banned same-sex marriages in the state. U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker’s...
View ArticleSame-sex marriage in California: the trap closes?
Don’t look now, but a twist has materialized in the legal epic of same-sex marriage in California. When U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker struck down the statute implementing the anti-SSM...
View ArticleAppeals court ruling temporarily blocks same-sex marriages in California
An appeals court ruling temporarily blocking same-sex marriages from resuming in California evoked strong responses from opponents and supporters of the state’s controversial 2008 referendum on the...
View ArticleSaskatchewan gov’t tells commissioners they must perform same-sex marriages
The provincial government in Saskatchewan has decided to not appeal a unanimous court decision obliging the province marriage commissioners to perform same-sex marriages no matter their religious...
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The legacy of Pope Benedict XVI
Franco Origlia/Getty Images In this story first published in 2011, Brian Bethune considered the ways Pope Benedict XVI was changing the Catholic Church: It wasn’t supposed to be this way, not according...
View ArticleLeadership moments in New York
Back in September 2010, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg took a position in favour of building a mosque near Ground Zero and, in so doing, joined a highly emotional debate that swept the nation....
View ArticleSame-sex marriage legal in New York
On Friday New York became the seventh, and largest state in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriage. Gay rights groups hope this landmark moment will give way to many others, as advocates in...
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Proposition Bert and Ernie
In 2009, the National Organization for Marriage—America’s foremost opponent of same-sex marriage, civil unions, and gay adoption rights—launched an ad campaign called “Gathering Storm” in an attempt to...
View Article‘Their marriage is not legally valid under Canadian law’
In court, the Harper government is apparently arguing against the legality of some same-sex marriages conducted in this country. Asked about the Globe story detailing this situation, the Prime Minister...
View ArticleWhat is and is not a marriage?
Robert Leckey, president of Egale, points with concern to both this latest court case and the case of a Canadian citizen in Britain. In both cases, we shouldn’t let the technicalities distract us from...
View ArticleHarper denies changing stance on same-sex marriage
Prime Minister Stephen Harper denied Ottawa is reconsidering its position on same-sex marriage, after a government lawyer filed a submission suggesting that same-sex marriages performed in Canada are...
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