Prom must allow gay date: court

Canadian press via Sun media ^ | May 10, 2002

[jackbill]

It's been over 55 years since I went to a prom but I seem to remember that you had a "dance card", and you tried to fill it up with attractive young ladies. Of course they had to agree.

That makes me wonder just who this "blue haired freak" is going to approach in order to fill his "dance card". Will he approach guys? Will any of them agree? I seriously doubt it.

If I were attending this prom, I would suggest that every time this freak took the dance floor, that everyone else took a seat.

[Great Dane]

No. The age of consent for buggery in Ontario is 18.

In which case there should be a charge of rape.

[Great Dane]

Mother happily hugging child after court victory.

[mamelukesabre]

har har

I only read the title. I could see how some pranksters would have a field day with this. Some clowns are gonna show up wearing a prom DRESS and fake boobs, just because the law says they can now.

[Clive]

The school board has not fully caved.

The judge delayed making his ruling until hours before the prom and I submit that the purpose in the delay was to frustrate any attempt by the board to take this matter higher before the prom.

The school board was faced with the either disobeying the order and taking its chances that the appellate court would agree or obey. If it disobeyed, it would then disrupt, for all the other pupils, an occasion which teens consider a significant and important day in their lives.

But note that the board's statement states that the litigation is still ongoing and that it will continue to advance its case.

It is my personal belief that this whole thing was a set-up by activists to sandbag a Catholic institution.

If it succeeds, this is the beginning of the end of the Separate School system in Ontario and possibly Canada.

There will be non-catholic parents who will be saddened by such an event. My son's schoolmates included boys who were sent to his school by non-catholic parents seeking the more disciplined and moral milieu of his school.

[eeriegeno]

Someday..... Someday, the world will view homosexuality the way it was viewed 50 years ago. A human abnormality. From the queer in the 50's we went to the gay of the 60's and 70's to the 'light-in-his-loafers' in the 80's and 90's. Now this sickness seems widely accepted as a person 'practicing and alternate lifestyle' (Reference the acceptance of Rosie, Ellen, et al). The sickness leads to a whole set of physical, mental, and moral diseases. Each of which affect the individual, the family, the community, and the country. How long will it take for the liberals to wake up to feel the effects of their mistake?????????

[Land of the Irish]

But the most pressing matter for us right now is to ensure our students have a wonderful prom. This is their night. An evening they'll remember for the rest of their lives.
How can a straight Catholic student have a wonderful prom with his female date, when queer boy and his child molester boyfriend are dancing alongside them and flaunting their sinfull relationship. This will not be a "wonderful prom" for those boys and girls; unfortunately, it will be an "evening they'll remember for the rest of their lives": A NIGHTMARE!

[stainlessbanner]

I wonder when it became cool to be gay? In my day, any kid at school would have got beaten to a pulp for this!

You ask where he learned to be queer - look at TV every nite: Sitcoms, cable shows, MTV - everyone of 'em has a fruitloop running around.

[Arthur McGowan]

However, if there are to be laws, there cannot be individuals or organizations who are exempt from them.

Everything within the State! Nothing outside the State! Seig Heil!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Can you believe this BS?

Coming from Canada, I can. The only thing that amazes me more is why the school isn't totally private, unless Canada (or the province) doesn't permit that anymore.

[Clive]

Ontario permits private schools.

It also has a full Separate School system as guaranteed by the constitution so that a child can get a catholic education without having to have rich parents to do so.

Formerly, the system was tax funded only to grade 10, but now the province funds all of the primary and secondary schools.

As I said in an earlier post, when full funding was introduced, two schools that had started as private schools but had joined the separate school system saw the potential consequences of full funding and reverted to their former private school status.

Private schools receive no public funding.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Sorry. Been freeping so much I'm getting cross-eyed.

If the Catholics can't conduct their "public" Catholic schools as their religious dictates, they might as well hang it up. There's nothing in the Canadian constitution, I hope, that forces there to be any "public" Catholic schools at all. It's kind of like the old hippie saw about what if they gave a war and nobody came... what if the gummint promised schools but the Catholics offered none rather than let their schools be hijacked by the state. (The same for fundamentalist Protestant schools.)

[RnMomof7]

Catholic schools in Ontario are now fully funded from tax dollars. When the Ontario government moved from partial funding to full funding, a friend phoned me and said "isn't it great, now we get full funding" to which I replied to the effect that it was merely the first step in a process which will eliminate Catholic schools.

Those that favor funding of Religious schools and those that favor the Presidents program to fund religious human service programs all need to look at this long and hard.

The colleges have become spiritually neuter thanks to public funds..

BTW I will bet his parents are "proud"

[Walkin Man]

In his ruling, MacKinnon wrote that "the idea of equality speaks to the conscience of all humanity dignity and worth. "Marc Hall is a Roman Catholic Canadian trying to be himself. He is gay. It's not an answer to Section 15 Charter rights on these facts to deny permission to attend a school function to celebrate the end of his high school career with his classmates."

So according to this Judge, if bluehair boy was into beastiality he must be allowed to bring his sheep to the prom, right? Why don't all the sicko's have their own state-sponsered prom so the regular kids don't have to watch two future AID's victims swap spit?

[Clive]

[jlogajan]

However, if there are to be laws, there cannot be individuals or organizations who are exempt from them.

Yet at the Nuremberg trials, people were held responsible for their own actions, even if under color of law.

[southern rock]

Catholic schools in Ontario are now fully funded from tax dollars. When the Ontario government moved from partial funding to full funding, a friend phoned me and said "isn't it great, now we get full funding" to which I replied to the effect that it was merely the first step in a process which will eliminate Catholic schools.

And to think there are still some conservatives in the U.S. who think school vouchers are a good idea.

[southern rock]

Should someone be attacked because of their sexual orientation? That is moral question. However, if there are to be laws, there cannot be individuals or organizations who are exempt from them.

Ahem.. So what exactly does "the funway" mean anyhow??